Abstract

This paper aims to understand from Nietzsche’s late thinking the reasons why we can observe aspects of nihilism in the opera Parsifal, by Wagner. Given the several considerations by Nietzsche regarding Parsifal, it is possible to identify it with nihilism, especially with the incomplete one. Besides that, if the denial of world is identified to moral, to asceticism, to Christian faith, to chastity and to compassion, these are the elements that guide the Wagnerian work from 1882 and which, in turn, characterize it as a kind of aesthetical nihilism.