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 A iA ek 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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Leading radical intellectual tackles the many controversial interpretations of Wagner's work.
Praise for Alain Badiou A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!A" Slavoj A iA ek An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.A" New Statesman Shaking the foundations of Western liberal democracy.A" Times Higher Education Supplement
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ISBN
9781844674565
Publisert
2010-11-29
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Verso Books
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01, G
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
224

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ALAIN BADIOU is the author of Being and Event, Logics of Worlds, Ethics, Metapolitics, Polemics, and The Communist Hypothesis. He teaches philosophy at the Aecole Normale Superieure.