Five Lessons on Wagner

Name: Five Lessons on Wagner
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ISBN: 9781844674817

ISBN-10: 1844674819

ISBN-13: 9781844674817

Edition: 2010

Authors: Alain Badiou, Susan Spitzer, Slavoj Zizek

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For over a century, Richard Wagnerrs"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 composerrs"s work, which include Adornors"s writings on the composer and Wagnerrs"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.

Book details

List price: $33.50
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 10/17/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the Ecole normale superieure and the College international de philosphie in Paris.



Translator's Acknowledgements


Preface



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'



The Enigma of Parsifal


Afterword: Wagner, Anti-Semitism and 'German Ideology'