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Five Lessons on Wagner
A leading radical intellectual tackles the many controversial interpretations of Wagners work For over a century, Richard Wagners music has been the subject of intense debate among philosophers, many of whom have attacked its ideologicalsome say racist and reactionaryunderpinnings. In this major new work,Alain Badiou, radical philosopher and keen Wagner enthusiast, offers a detailed reading of the critical responses to the composers work, which include Adornos writings on the composer and Wagners recuperation by Nazism as well as more recent readings by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and others. Slavoj Zizek provides an afterword, and both philosophers make a passionate case for re-examining the relevance of Wagner to the contemporary world. My Link