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Five Lessons on Wagner

Five Lessons on Wagner

Spitzer, Susan
Zizek, Slavoj
Badiou, Alain

Paperback

PhilosophyClassical MusicMusic Reference

ISBN10: 1844674819
ISBN13: 9781844674817
Publisher: Verso
Published: Oct 17 2010
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
A leading radical intellectual tackles the many controversial interpretations of Wagner's work

For over a century, Richard Wagner's 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 composer's work, which include Adorno's writings on the composer and Wagner's 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.

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