This article contains the arguments already addressed by the author in the previous issue of the magazine. In this essay he explores the figure of Wagner and ana- lyzes his work and his personality: musical genius, art theoretician and teacher of thinking. There are many other great authors and topics addressed in theessay, Adorno, Gramsci, etc. and the essay concludes with a reflection on the subject ‘courtly’ and ‘embourgeoisement’ of tragedy.