The history of the ambiguous relationship between Nietzsche and Wagner reveals all dimensions of this fragile tension when considered accordingly to the elements from which both considered the problem of culture and its renewal as political and theoretic mission. This paper intends, by reading some testimonial documents, to stress the ideological distance that both the philologist and the composer, strategically, had to ignore. The differences between their culture reform projects can, through this analysis, be demonstrated - with regards to political acting as well as to a worldview.
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