Autore: Sanković Ivančić, Martina
Titolo: From Albatross to Bird Wisdom. Dialogue between Baudelairian and Nietzschian Metaphors
Periodico: Estetica
Anno: 2025 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 249 - Pagina finale: 264

In this essay we will analyse the meeting points, as well as the points of division, between Charles Baudelaire and Friedrich Nietzsche, while also passing through the work of the one who, at least intellectually, was the link between the two: Richard Wagner. In the first part, I will briefly outline the question concerning the chronology of Nietzsche’s Baudelairian readings. In the second part, I will highlight the role that Richard Wagner played in the intellectual bond between the two thinkers, as an emblem of a new way of feeling and the spirit of the nineteenth century. In the third part, I will analyse the Baudelairian motifs in relation to Thus Spoke Zarathustra and in relation to art, beauty, time, death, gold and the metaphor of birds. Despite their assonance in feeling, the solutions of the two thinkers are placed at the antipodes: Baudelaire invokes the Christian redemption, while Nietzsche suggests amor fati. Depending on when Nietzsche read the French poet, which remains uncertain, the Baudelairian references in the Nietzschean text can be interpreted either as echoes and resonances, or as representative of a common feeling and a specific sensitivity in the understanding of their epoch.




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