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In Search of Wagner
Contributor(s): Adorno, Theodor (Author), Livingstone, Rodney (Translator), Zizek, Slavoj (Foreword by)

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ISBN: 1844673448 ISBN-13: 9781844673445
Publisher: Verso

OUR PRICE: $23.70

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: June 2009
Annotation: The most brilliant exponent of Frankfurt School Critical Theory subtly interweaves aesthetics and ideology in this probing analysis of the controversial composer's oeuvre. "An astonishing book... essential reading... a superior translation." --New York Review of Books

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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Aesthetics
- Biography & Autobiography | Music
- Music | History & Criticism - General

Dewey: 782.109

Series: Radical Thinkers

Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 7.5" L (0.40 lbs) 176 pages

Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Cultural Region - Germany

Features: Index, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents

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Publisher Description:
Written in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe's most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner's oeuvre with patent musical dexterity, Adorno sheds light on a nineteenth-century bourgeois figure whose operas betray the social gestures and high-culture fantasies that helped plant the seeds of the modern Culture Industry. A foreword by Slavoj Žižek situates Adorno's reflections within present debates over Wagner's anti-Semitism and the moral status of his work, proving why this book remains one of the most important character studies of the twentieth century.

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