The Philosophies of Richard Wagner
定價：1800 元
NT $ 1,800
- 作者：Julian，Young
- 出版社：Lexington Books
- 出版日期：2016-05-04
- 語言：英文
- ISBN10：0739199943
- ISBN13：9780739199947
- 裝訂：平裝 / 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm / 普通級
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 originalGesamtkunstwerk) 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 ofLohengrin, The Ring cycle,Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger, andParsifal.
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.”
