Thoughts out of Season, Part I : David Strauss, the Confessor and the Writer - Richard Wagner in Bayreuth.
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untimely_Meditations Release date is 2016-04-09
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"Thoughts out of Season, Part I" by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche is an essay written in 1873. In this provocative work, Nietzsche launches a scathing attack on David Strauss and his widely-read book as emblems of contemporary German cultural degeneracy. He denounces Strauss as a "Philistine of pseudo-culture," critiquing both his ideas and his writing with biting humor. This essay marks the beginning of Nietzsche's distinctive polemical style, setting the stage for his broader cultural diagnosis of modern Europe. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 Strauss, David Friedrich, 1808-1874