[New Entry by Timothy Stoll on February 14, 2025.]
Nietzsche’s first book was entitled The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music (1872), and one of his very last works was called The Case of Wagner: A Musician’s Problem (1888). As this simple fact indicates, reflection on art (and especially, on music and drama) is an abiding and central feature of Nietzsche’s thought. Indeed, very nearly all of his works address aesthetic questions at least in passing. Some of these questions are familiar from the philosophical tradition: e.g., how…

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