Five Lessons on Wagner by Slavoj Zizek

Five Lessons on Wagner by Slavoj Zizek

For over a century, Richard Wagner's music has been the subject of intense debate among philosophers, many of whom have attacked its ideological-some say racist and reactionary-underpinnings. In this major new work, Alain Badiou, radical philosopher and keen Wagner enthusiast, offers a detailed reading of the critical responses to the composer's work, which include Adorno's writings on the composer and Wagner's recuperation by Nazism as well as more recent readings by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and others. Slavoj Zizek provides an afterword, and both philosophers make a passionate case for re-examining the relevance of Wagner to the contemporary world.

A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us! -- Slavoj Zizek (in praise of Alain Badiou)
An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser* New Statesman (in praise of Alain Badiou) *
Shaking the foundations of Western liberal democracy. * Times Higher Education Supplement (in praise of Alain Badiou) *

Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. He is the author of several seminal works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event and Manifesto for Philosophy. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, and The Communist Hypothesis.

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ISBN 13	9781844674817
ISBN 10	1844674819
Title	Five Lessons on Wagner
Author	Slavoj Zizek
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Verso Books
Year published	2010-10-17
Number of pages	254
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