Opera's Second Death

Name: Opera's Second Death
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ISBN: 9780415930178

ISBN-10: 0415930170

ISBN-13: 9780415930178

Edition: 2002

Authors: Slavoj Zizek, Mladen Dolar

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Operas are about the meaning of love and life, and also very much about the meaning of death. Opera as a form, however, might even be dead itself. The last great operas are said to be those written around 1900. But, the psychoanalytic critic and philosopher Slavoj Zizek is quick to point out, 1900 is also the year in which Freud 'invents' psychoanalysis. Can this be a coincidence?Opera's Second Deathis a passionate exploration of opera---the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the strange compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart and Wagner, as well as our own desires to die and to go to the…

Book details

List price: $43.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/16/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 7.05" wide x 9.09" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Mladen Dolar taught for 20 years in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he now works as a Senior Research Fellow. He is the author of a number of books, most recently (with Slavoj Zizek) Opera's Second Death.



Introduction: for the Love of Opera



If Music be the Food of Love



The Birth of Opera from the Spirit of Absolutism


Acheronta movebo


The Logic of Mercy


Opera buffa


Syntax


Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail


Figaro


Don Giovanni


The Opera in Philosophy: Mozart and Kierkegaard


La femme machine


Machine in Love


A Philosopher in the Opera


Machine and Enjoyment


The Rationalistic Myth of the Enlightenment


He Is a Man--Even More, He Is a Prince


Three Continuations


Intermission


"I do Not Order My Dreams"



The Death Drive and the Wagnerian Sublime


The Forced Choice


The Disavowal



"Deeper Than the Day Could Read"


The What-Ifs


Tristan's Journey to the Bottom of the Night


Transgression? No, Thanks!


Wagner's Sexualized Politics


The Moebius Strip



"The Everlasting Irony of Community"


Wagner with Kierkegaard


Kundry's Laughter ...


... and Her Kiss


The Feminine versus Woman


Interlude / The Feminine Excess



Run, Isode, Run


The Cyberspace Tristan


The Morning After


"It quacks, hoots, pants, and gasps"


The Separated Flames


No More Running


Bibliography


Index