Five lessons on Wagner
For over a century, Richard Wagnerʹs music has been the subject of intense debate among philosophers, many of whom have attacked its ideological--some say racist and reactionary--underpinnings. In this major new work, Alain Badiou, radical philosopher and keen Wagner enthusiast, offers a detailed reading of the critical responses to the composerʹs work, which include Adornoʹs writings on the composer and Wagnerʹs recuperation by Nazism as well as more recent readings by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe…
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- Full title :Five lessons on Wagner / Alain Badiou ; translated by Susan Spitzer ; with an afterword by Slavoj Žižek.
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For over a century, Richard Wagnerʹs music has been the subject of intense debate among philosophers, many of whom have attacked its ideological--some say racist and reactionary--underpinnings. In this major new work, Alain Badiou, radical philosopher and keen Wagner enthusiast, offers a detailed reading of the critical responses to the composerʹs work, which include Adornoʹs writings on the composer and Wagnerʹs recuperation by Nazism as well as more recent readings by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and others. Slavoj Zizek provides an afterword, and both philosophers make a passionate case for re-examining the relevance of Wagner to the contemporary world. -- Publisher description.
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- Publication Date:2010.
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- Publisher(s):Verso
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
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- Description:xiii, 239 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781844674565, 1844674568, 9781844674817, 1844674819, 9781844674655, 1844674657, 9781844674657
- oclc:ocn601096700
- LC Classification:ML410.W13
- Dewey Decimal:780.92
Table of Contents
Contemporary philosophy and the question of Wagner : the anti-Wagnerian position of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe -- Adorno's Negative dialectics -- Wagner as a philosophical question -- Reopening "the case of Wagner" -- Enigma of Parsifal -- Wagner, anti-semitism and 'German ideology" / Slavoj Zizek.
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