Episode 36: Friedrich Nietzsche’s "The Case of Wagner" (Study Group) [PATREON PREVIEW]
The Flavortone Study Group sub-series continues with Alec & Nick discussing Friedrich Nietzsche’s text “The Case of Wagner: A Musician’s Problem,” his last work completed only days before his mental collapse in 1888. The conversation delves into the historical context for both Nietzsche’s thought and Wagner’s music and delves into the text’s themes of decadence, exhaustion, sickness, philosophical affect—analyzing Wagner’s work as a possible litmus test for the role of music in philosophy, and, in broader terms, in ideology.