RODRIGO JUVENTINO BASTOS DE MORAES

As Nietzsche once warned, his youthful texts, such as his Untimely Essays, were like “weapons made to hit people’s heads until something happens” in the context of a true “cultural war” waged especially since the creation of the Bayreuth theater, which would be inaugurated in 1876. This research seeks to find a hermeneutical key to reading Nietzsche’s so-called youthful texts by associating them, as complementary pieces, with the Wagnerian cause of carrying out an aesthetic project for Germany after Unification. In a certain sense, this work seeks to systematize that statement by Charles Andler that is only suggested in his intellectual biography of Nietzsche, namely that the philosopher’s work up until the break with the Bayreuth project has as its starting point “always the gaps in the Wagnerian system”. Seeking to complement Wagner’s works, Nietzsche would even have awakened his own genius. From this, I also intend, through the prism of the friendship between Nietzsche and Wagner, to find a privileged point of analysis of the history of ideas in Germany from the failure of the revolutions of 1848 until the unification in 1871.