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Dominique Pagani approaches illness through Nietzsche, for whom the decisive dichotomy is not that of the true and the false, but that of the healthy and the unhealthy. In his view, this opposition between health and illness overarches, in Nietzsche, those of true and false, good and evil, beautiful and ugly12. He presents Nietzsche as a sick man seeking a cure3. Nietzsche contrasts the vitality of Antiquity with modern times, a time of length and of illness, but Dominique Pagani stresses that his feeling for the unhealthy remains ambivalent4. He quotes a passage in which the German is compared to the chronically ill and to dyspeptics, inclined to indolence. Regarding Wagner, he argues that a healthier Wagner would have regressed: Wagner dared to express illness, the illness of love and of youth5. Finally, he notes the phrase "The world is poor for one who has never been sick enough", in which the healthy-sick axis is paired with the rich-poor axis6.
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