Musica Ficta: (figures of Wagner) (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

Name: Musica Ficta: (figures of Wagner) (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Brand: STANFORD UNIV PR
SKU: 9780804723855-V
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By Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

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This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problems of mimesis, between presentation and re-presentaion. Four "scenes" comprise the book, all four of them responses to Wagner: two by French poets (Baudelaire and Mallarme), two by German philosophers (Heidegger and Adorno). It is dificult to realize how profoundly Wagner affected the cultural and ideological sensibilities of the nineteenth century. Wagnerism rapidly spread throughout Europe, partly because of Wagner's propagandizing talent and the zeal of his adherents. But the main reason for his ascendance was the sudden appearance of what the century had desperately tried to produce since the beginnings of Romanticism - a work of art on the scale of great Greek and Christian art. At last, here it was: the secret of what Hegel called the "religion of art" rediscovered. The first two scenes of the book present a historical sequence that is punctuated by the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, in which the universal unbridling of nations and classes is prefigured. The second two register certain effects of Wagnerism that are not just ideological but make themselves felt in a new political configuration of the "national" and the "social."

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 190
Release Date:: 1994-12-01
Publication Date:: 1994-12-01
Publisher:: STANFORD UNIV PR
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0804723850
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 249 g

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