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Finding an ending : reflections on Wagner's Ring /

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Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner's four-part Ring of the Nibelungs. In Finding an Ending, two eminent philosophers, Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht, offer an illuminating look at this greatest of Wagner's achievements, focusing on its far-reaching and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kitcher, Philip, 1947-
Other Authors: Schacht, Richard, 1941-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Wagner, Richard, > 1813-1883. > Ring des Nibelungen.
Ring des Nibelungen (Wagner, Richard)
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Musique > Philosophie et esthétique.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Opera.
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Wagner's philosophers
  • Authority and judgment in Don Giovanni
  • Alberich and Fricka
  • Wotan's challenge
  • Meaning and the tradition
  • Meaning and the Ring
  • Wotan's project
  • Wotan's problem
  • Loge
  • Erda
  • Wotan's judgments
  • Project Siegfried
  • Wotan's dilemmas
  • Wotan's authority
  • Siegmund and Sieglinde
  • Varieties of love
  • Brünnhilde's progress
  • Brünnhilde's transformation
  • Brünnhilde's authority
  • Siegfried and other problems
  • Ending and renewal.