Tag: wagner
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‘Opera’s Second Death’ by Slavoj Žižek & Mladen Dolar
Opera’s Second Death is not simply a philosophical reflection on opera, but as a sustained theoretical experiment in which opera is treated as a privileged site for thinking some of the most intractable problems of modern philosophy: death and repetition, enjoyment and loss, subjectivity and its dissolution, the relation between symbolic order and bodily excess,…
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‘Five Lessons on Wagner’ by Alain Badiou
Five Lessons on Wagner presents a philosopher’s rigorous attempt to re-situate Wagner within the field where aesthetics, ideology, and method intersect. Badiou’s wager is that Wagner is less a historical composer to be judged by posterior moral verdicts than a recurrent operator that allows philosophy to test its own concepts—identity, myth, totalization, continuity, and subject—under…
Simon Gros 