In Search of Wagner
by Theodor Adorno, Rodney Livingstone, Slavoj Zizek
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Author: Rodney Livingstone, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor AdornoEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); German (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-08-01
ISBN: 1844675009
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Verso
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Book Review: new translation of work by influential 20th-century thinker
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The European emigre writer Adorno is a major mid 20th century author identified with the Frankfurt School of social criticism. Although this School is usually described as having a Marxist perspective, the social criticism of Adorno is not doctrinaire or propagandistic. Adorno's writings--as this current publication testifies again--have stood the test of time for their acuteness, rigor, and application of first-rate intellectual powers to subjects of the contemporary society. These qualities of Adorno's critical thinking are evident as well in his work "In Search of Wagner." In a 20-page introductory foreword, the philosopher/social critic Slavoj Zizek takes up the question "Why Is Wagner Worth Saving?" Wagner's music, ideas, and biography continue to draw the attention of thinkers in various fields because exploration of these and positions reached regarding them yield insights and assessments on power, anti-Semitism, art, psychology, and politics in the modern world. Written in the late 1930s, "In Search of Wagner" demonstrates Adorno's innovative, timely, and valuable methodology as it grapples with central questions of modern culture.
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