The Philosophies Of Richard Wagner

The Philosophies Of Richard Wagner Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Philosophies Of Richard Wagner book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.

The Philosophies of Richard Wagner

Julian Young
The Philosophies of Richard Wagner Book PDF

Author : Julian Young
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739199930

Get Book

The Philosophies of Richard Wagner by Julian Young Pdf

In addition to being a great composer, Richard Wagner was also an important philosopher. Julian Young begins by examining the philosophy of art and society Wagner constructs during his time as a revolutionary anarchist-communist. Modernity, Wagner argued, is to be rescued from its current anomie through the rebirth of Greek tragedy (the original Gesamtkunstwerk) in the form of the “artwork of the future," an artwork of which his own operas are the prototype. Young then examines the entirely different philosophy Wagner constructs after his 1854 conversion from Hegelian optimism to Schopenhauerian pessimism. “Redemption” now becomes, not a future utopia in this world, but rather “transfigured” existence in another world, attainable only through death. Viewing Wagner’s operas through the lens of his philosophy, the book offers often novel interpretations of Lohengrin, The Ring cycle, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger, and Parsifal. Finally, Young dresses the cause of Friedrich Nietzsche’s transformation from Wagner’s intimate friend and disciple into his most savage critic. Nietzsche’s fundamental accusation, it is argued, is one of betrayal: that Wagner betrayed his early, “life affirming” philosophy of art and life in favor of “life-denial." Nietzsche’s assertion and the final conclusion of the book is that our task, now, is to “become better Wagnerians than Wagner.”

The Poetry and Philosophy of Richard Wagner

Zona Gale
The Poetry and Philosophy of Richard Wagner Book PDF

Author : Zona Gale
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020312122

Get Book

The Poetry and Philosophy of Richard Wagner by Zona Gale Pdf

This book examines the poetic and philosophical themes in the works of Richard Wagner, a German composer and philosopher. Through a close analysis of his music dramas and writings, the author reveals the complex and nuanced ideas that underpin Wagner's artistic vision, as well as the enduring influence of his ideas on Western culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Case of Wagner

Friedrich Nietzsche
The Case of Wagner Book PDF

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Perennial Press
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781531263362

Get Book

The Case of Wagner by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

In reading these two essays we are apt to be deceived, by their virulent and forcible tone, into believing that the whole matter is a mere cover for hidden fire,-a mere blind of æsthetic discussion concealing a deep and implacable personal feud which demands and will have vengeance. In spite of all that has been said to the contrary, many people still hold this view of the two little works before us; and, as the actual facts are not accessible to every one, and rumours are more easily believed than verified, the error of supposing that these pamphlets were dictated by personal animosity, and even by Nietzsche's envy of Wagner in his glory, seems to be a pretty common one. Another very general error is to suppose that the point at issue here is not one concerning music at all, but concerning religion.

Nietzsche, Wagner and the Philosophy of Pessimism

Roger Hollinrake
Nietzsche Wagner and the Philosophy of Pessimism Book PDF

Author : Roger Hollinrake
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135175238

Get Book

Nietzsche, Wagner and the Philosophy of Pessimism by Roger Hollinrake Pdf

Nietzsche’s relationship with Wagner has long been a source of controversy and has given rise to a number of important studies, including this major breakthrough in Nietzsche scholarship, first published in 1982. In this work Hollinrake contends that the nature and extent of the anti-Wagnerian pastiche and polemic in Thus Spake Zarathustra is arguably the most important factor in the association between the two. Thus Wagner, as the purveyor of a particular brand of Schopenhauerian pessimism, is here revealed as one of the principle sources – and targets – of Zarathustra. Whilst addressed primarily to students of German Literature, this book will also be of interest to musicians, philosophers and students of the history of culture and ideas.

The Birth of Tragedy

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The Birth of Tragedy Book PDF

Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1419254073

Get Book

The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Pdf

Indeed, what is the Dionysian? This book offers an answer to that question: a "knowledgeable person" speaks there, the initiate and disciple of his own god. Perhaps I would now speak with more care and less eloquently about such a difficult psychological question as the origin of tragedy among the Greeks. A basic issue is the relationship of the Greeks to pain, the degree of their sensitivity. Did this relationship remain constant? Or did it turn itself around? That question whether their constantly strong desire for beauty, feasts, festivities, and new cults arose out of some lack, deprivation, melancholy, or pain.

Richard Wagner

Joachim Köhler
Richard Wagner Book PDF

Author : Joachim Köhler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300104227

Get Book

Richard Wagner by Joachim Köhler Pdf

This major new biography of Richard Wagner is iconoclastic, astringent and bold. It explores the philosophical roots of Wagner's work, which the composer himself deliberately obfuscated. It re-evaluates Wagner's relationships with his mother, step-father and - most revealingly - his wife, Cosima, standing received opinion on its head. And he meets head on, and confirms, the controversy over Wagner's anti-semitism. At the same time, and notwithstanding, Kohler profoundly acknowledges Wagner's genius.

Aspects of Wagner

Bryan Magee
Aspects of Wagner Book PDF

Author : Bryan Magee
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0192840126

Get Book

Aspects of Wagner by Bryan Magee Pdf

Many music lovers find Wagner's operas inexpressibly beautiful and richly satisfying, while others find them revolting, dangerous, self-indulgent, and immoral. The man who W.H. Auden once called "perhaps the greatest genius that ever lived" has inspired both greater adulation and greater loathing than any other composer. Bryan Magee presents a penetrating analysis of Wagner's work, concentrating on how his sensational and deeply erotic music uniquely expresses the repressed and highly charged contents of the psyche. He examines not only Wagner's music and detailed stage directions but also the prose works in which he formulated his ideas, as well as shedding new light on his anti-semitism and the way in which the Nazis twisted his theories to suit their own purposes. Outlining the astonishing range and depth of Wagner's influence on our culture, Magee reveals how profoundly he continues to shock and inspire musicians, poets, novelists, painters, philosophers, and politicians today.

Finding an Ending

Philip Kitcher,Richard Schacht
Finding an Ending Book PDF

Author : Philip Kitcher,Richard Schacht
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195183603

Get Book

Finding an Ending by Philip Kitcher,Richard Schacht Pdf

Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner's four-part Ring of the Nibelung. In Finding an Ending, two eminent philosophers, Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht, offer an illuminating look at this greatest of Wagner's achievements, focusing on its far-reaching and subtle exploration of problems of meanings and endings in this life and world. Kitcher and Schacht plunge the reader into the heart of Wagner's Ring, drawing out the philosophical and human significance of the text and the music. They show how different forms of love, freedom, heroism, authority, and judgment are explored and tested as it unfolds. As they journey across its sweeping musical-dramatic landscape, Kitcher and Schacht lead us to the central concern of the Ring--the problem of endowing life with genuine significance that can be enhanced rather than negated by its ending, if the right sort of ending can be found. The drama originates in Wotan's quest for a transformation of the primordial state of things into a world in which life can be lived more meaningfully. The authors trace the evolution of Wotan's efforts, the intricate problems he confronts, and his failures and defeats. But while the problem Wotan poses for himself proves to be insoluble as he conceives of it, they suggest that his very efforts and failures set the stage for the transformation of his problem, and for the only sort of resolution of it that may be humanly possible--to which it is not Siegfried but rather Brunnhilde who shows the way. The Ring's ending, with its passing of the gods above and destruction of the world below, might seem to be devastating; but Kitcher and Schacht see a kind of meaning in and through the ending revealed to us that is profoundly affirmative, and that has perhaps never been so powerfully and so beautifully expressed. "

Richard Wagner's Music Dramas

Carl Dahlhaus
Richard Wagner s Music Dramas Book PDF

Author : Carl Dahlhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992-03-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521428998

Get Book

Richard Wagner's Music Dramas by Carl Dahlhaus Pdf

Previous studies of Wagner's operas have tended to approach the works as chunks of autobiography, philosophical speculations or historical-political comments on the age in which they were written. Professor Dahlhaus dissociated himself from all such ventures. His aim is to reveal, by careful analysis of the works from Der fliegende Hollander to Parsifal, the dominant features of 'music drama' and how Wagner achieves such profound, unified effects. Professor Dahlhaus cites music examples only when they are germane to his argument and requires from his readers no more than a limited amount of technical musical knowledge. This is not, therefore, an exclusively specialist study. Rather it will help the enthusiastic beginner to come to terms with these great works of art as well as offering many valuable insights to the experienced Wagnerian. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of music history, theory, opera and philosophy.

Wagner and Philosophy

Bryan Magee
Wagner and Philosophy Book PDF

Author : Bryan Magee
Publisher : ePenguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-06
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSD:31822031585052

Get Book

Wagner and Philosophy by Bryan Magee Pdf

A contribution to the literature of 19th-century culture, this is a study of the close links between Wagner and the philosophy of his age. The author tries to make sense of both the man and his music by placing Wagner in the context of 19th-century thought. His sympathy for Wagner's music is tempered by an independence of mind which allows him to rethink much of the hostility towards Wagner. Revealing his anti-Semitism as virulent, but certainly not unusual, Magee argues that there is no reason to regard him as a proto-fascist and that an opinion of his politics should not cloud the judgment of his music.

Richard Wagner

Ronald Taylor
Richard Wagner Book PDF

Author : Ronald Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042328489

Get Book

Richard Wagner by Ronald Taylor Pdf

"Ronald Taylor has set out to provide in a single volume a substantial all-round life-and-work to place alongside the many specialist and partial studies of Wagner. He essays to cover all main aspects of Wagner within a coherent biographical framework, basing his account on primary sources such as Wagner's autobiographical writings and letters, the reminiscences of Liszt, Nietzsche and other friends and associates, and the complete diary of Cosima, first published in 1977. The restless existence that Wagner led from his schooldays to the end of his life, his revolutionary activity, his love affairs, his pursuit of luxury and his perpetual debts, his extraordinary self-centredness and manipulation of others, the famous men and women around him, the heaven-sent patronage of the lonely and eccentric arch-romantic King Ludwig II of Bavaria, the building of his personal temple, the Festival Theatre in Bayreuth--this is the stuff of absorbing biography. And there can be scarcely any other composer whose life was so bound up with the events of his time, and so compellingly illustrative of them, as Wagner's. The 1830 Revolution in France and the European revolutions of 1848 and 1849, the heady radical and hedonistic notions of the Young German movement, the philosophy of Schopenhauer, the urge towards German political unification--these played crucial parts in moulding his mind. Ronald Taylor not only discusses Wagner's compositions as works of art, but shows how each of them, from Die Feen to Parsifal, is grounded in its creator's intellectual and spiritual development. He considers, for example, the allegorical significance of The Ring in terms of Wagner's views on society and human relationships, the indelible mark left by the experience of being spurned by the bourgeois taste of 1830s Paris, and demonstrates how a work which contains such nationalistic elements can at the same time be one of the overwhelming achievements in European culture. The elaborate structure of ideas and theories that surrounds Wagner's music is further revealed by succinct accounts of his political, social, and musical thinking at all periods of his career as expressed in his key writings on culture and society, the role of the artist in the community, the musical scene in nineteenth-century Europe, and many other subjects. In a postscript the main lines of the controversies--musical, philosophical and psychological--that have raged over Wagner from his lifetime onwards are shown in a balanced selection of statements by prominent, and diverse, figures such as Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Debussy, Stravinsky, Thomas Mann, George Bernard Shaw, Bruno Walter, Adorno and Boulez." --Jacket.

The Consolations of History: Themes of Progress and Potential in Richard Wagner’s Gotterdammerung

Alexander H. Shapiro
The Consolations of History Themes of Progress and Potential in Richard Wagner s Gotterdammerung Book PDF

Author : Alexander H. Shapiro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781000672800

Get Book

The Consolations of History: Themes of Progress and Potential in Richard Wagner’s Gotterdammerung by Alexander H. Shapiro Pdf

In this book on Richard Wagner’s compelling but enigmatic masterpiece Götterdämmerung, the final opera of his monumental Ring tetralogy, Alexander H. Shapiro advances an ambitious new interpretation which uncovers intriguing new facets to the work’s profound insights into the human condition. By taking a fresh look at the philosophical and historical influences on Wagner, and critically reevaluating the composer’s intellectual worldview as revealed in his own prose works, letters, and diary entries, the book challenges a number of conventional views that continue to impede a clear understanding of this work’s meaning. The book argues that Götterdämmerung, and hence the Ring as a whole, achieves coherence when interpreted in terms of contemporary nineteenth-century theories of progress, and, in particular, G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophies of mind and history. A central target of the book is the article of faith that has come to dominate Wagner scholarship over the years – that Wagner’s encounter in 1854 with Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophy conclusively altered the final message of the Ring from one of historical optimism to existential pessimism. The author contends that Schopenhauer’s uncompromising denigration of the will and denial of the possibility for human progress find no place in the written text of the Ring or in a plausible reading of the final musical setting. In its place, the author discovers in the famous Immolation Scene a celebration of mankind’s inexhaustible capacity for self-improvement and progress. The author makes the further compelling case that this message of progress is communicated not through Siegfried, the traditional male hero of the drama, but through Brünnhilde, the warrior goddess who becomes a mortal woman. In her role as a battle-tested world-historical prophet she is the true revolutionary change agent of Wagner’s opera who has the strength and vision to comprehend and thereby shape human history. This highly lucid and accessible study is aimed not only at scholars and researchers in the fields of opera studies, music and philosophy, and music history, but also Wagner enthusiasts, and readers and students interested in the history and philosophy of the nineteenth century.

The Case of Wagner

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The Case of Wagner Book PDF

Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1406878685

Get Book

The Case of Wagner by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Pdf

Originally published in 1888, this book is a critique of Richard Wagner heralding Nietzsche's rupture with him and presenting Wagner as a particular symptom of a broader "disease" affecting Europe - nihilism. Nietzsche shows himself to be a capable music critic and reflects on the nature of art and its relationship to the future health of humanity.

The Tristan Chord

Bryan Magee
The Tristan Chord Book PDF

Author : Bryan Magee
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080507189X

Get Book

The Tristan Chord by Bryan Magee Pdf

And he unflinchingly confronts the Wagner whose paranoia, egocentricity, and anti-Semitism are as repugnant as his achievements are glorious."--Jacket.

The Philosophy of Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The Philosophy of Nietzsche Book PDF

Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher : Signet Book
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39076000990650

Get Book

The Philosophy of Nietzsche by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Pdf

Translations selected from the Levy ed.(London,1921);arrangement based on the Schlechts ed.(Munich,1954-56).