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Wagner and Philosophy

Paperback • 2001 • English

Wagner and Philosophy

By Bryan Magee

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About the book

Wagner was one of the few major composers who studied philosophy seriously. Bryan Magee places the composer's artistic development in the context of the philosophy of his age, and gives us the first detailed and comprehensive study of the close links between Wagner and the philosophers - from the pre-Marxist socialists to Feuerbach and Schopenhauer. Magee explores the relationship between words and music, between the conscious and the unconscious mind, between art and philosophy. It tackles sobe...Show more

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9780140295191

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2001

Language

English

Original title

Wagner and Philosophy

Format

Paperback

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