Research Catalog

Title

Beyond reason : Wagner contra Nietzsche / Karol Berger.

Author

Berger, Karol, 1947-

Publication

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

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Description

xvi, 529 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Beyond Reason relates Wagner's works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career: Der Ring des Nibelungen, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Parsifal. Karol Berger seeks to penetrate the "secret" of large-scale form in Wagner's music dramas and to answer those critics, most prominently Nietzsche, who condemned Wagner for his putative inability to weld small expressive gestures into larger wholes. Organized by individual opera, this is essential reading for both musicologists and Wagner experts."--Provided by publisher.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900
• Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 > Criticism and interpretation
• Operas (Wagner, Richard)
• Operas > Philosophy and aesthetics
• Philosophy
• Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
• Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 > Philosophy
• Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue: beyond autonomy -- The secret of music-dramatic form: music drama as opera -- Der Ring des Nibelungen: the anarchist utopia -- Tristan und Isolde: the erotic utopia -- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: politics after Tristan -- Parsifal: ethics after Tristan -- Epilogue: Wagner contra Nietzsche.

ISBN

• 9780520292758
• 0520292758

LCCN

^^2016015325

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library