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OverviewWritten 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Theodor Adorno , Rodney Livingstone , Slavoj ZizekPublisher: Verso Books Imprint: Verso Books Volume: Series 4 Dimensions: Width: 13.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 19.60cm Weight: 0.192kg ISBN: 9781844673445ISBN 10: 1844673448 Pages: 148 Publication Date: 09 June 2009 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAn astonishing book, comparable only to the later Wagner tracts by Nietzsche... essential reading for anyone seriously involved with the composer, and now we can read it thanks to a superior translation by Rodney Livingstone. New York Review of Books Author InformationTheodor 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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