Work · Friedrich Nietzsche
A New Year's Word
Nietzsche attacks editor Alfred Dove for favorably mentioning Theodor Puschmann's pathologizing account of Wagner.
Understanding the text
A short 1873 polemical intervention preserved as an independent eKGWB text.
Key points
- 01
Diagnosis
Treating artistic disagreement as illness can avoid examining the work.
- 02
Press
Editors are responsible for the judgments they authorize publicly.
- 03
Alliance
The text defends Wagner before Nietzsche's later break.
How to read it
Compare this defense with The Case of Wagner: evaluative positions, not only targets, changed.
Editions & sources
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