Beyond reason
Subtitle: Wagner contra Nietzsche
By: Karol Berger
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 529
ISBN-13: 9780520292758
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Operas; Philosophy; Criticism and interpretation; Philosophy and aesthetics
Description: 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.
Notes: "Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint"--Preliminary page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-516) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue. Beyond autonomy; title: The secret of music-dramatic form : music drama as opera; title: Der Ring des Nibelungen : the anarchist utopia; title: Tristan und Isolde : the erotic utopia; title: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg : politics after Tristan; title: Parsifal: ethics after Tristan; title: Epilogue. Wagner contra Nietzsche.