In Search of Wagner

By:

Theodor Adorno

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Radical Thinkers

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Written in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe's most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner's oeuvre with patent musical dexterity, Adorno sheds light on a nineteenth-century bourgeois figure whose operas betray the social gestures and high-culture fantasies that helped plant the seeds of the modern Culture Industry. A foreword by Slavoj Zizek situates Adorno's reflections within present debates over Wagner's anti-Semitism and the moral status of his work, proving why this book remains one of the most important character studies of the twentieth century.

Author Biography:

Theodor W. Adorno was director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt from 1956 until his death in 1969. His works include Minima Moralia, Quasi una Fantasia, Aesthetic Theory, Negative Dialectics and (with Max Horkheimer) Dialectic of Enlightenment. Slavoj Zizek is International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. His books include The Ticklish Subject, The Sublime Object of Ideology, and In Defense of Lost Causes.

Release date NZ

June 9th, 2009

Author

Theodor Adorno

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Contributors

Foreword by Slavoj Zizek
Translated by Rodney Livingstone

Pages

148

Series

Radical Thinkers

Dimensions

130x196x15

ISBN-13

9781844673445

Product ID

3005238

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