Five Lessons on Wagner - by Alain Badiou (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A leading radical intellectual tackles the many controversial interpretations of Wagner's work.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A leading radical intellectual tackles the many controversial interpretations of Wagner's work</b><p>For over a century, Richard Wagner's music has been the subject of intense debate among philosophers, many of whom have attacked its ideological--some say racist and reactionary--underpinnings. In this major new work, Alain Badiou, radical philosopher and keen Wagner enthusiast, offers a detailed reading of the critical responses to the composer's work, which include Adorno's writings on the composer and Wagner's 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!"--Slavoj Žižek (in praise of Alain Badiou) <p/>"An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser."--<i>New Statesman (in praise of Alain Badiou)</i> <p/>"Shaking the foundations of Western liberal democracy."--<i>Times Higher Education Supplement (in praise of Alain Badiou)</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Alain Badiou</b> teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including <i>Theory of the Subject</i>, <i>Being and Event</i>, <i>Manifesto for Philosophy</i>, and <i>Gilles Deleuze</i>. His recent books include <i>The Meaning of Sarkozy</i>, <i>Ethics</i>, <i>Metapolitics</i>, <i>Polemics, </i> <i>The Communist Hypothesis</i>, <i>Five Lessons on Wagner</i>, and <i>Wittgenstein's Anti-Philosophy</i>. <p/><b>Slavoj Žižek</b> is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include <i>Living in the End Times</i>, <i>First as Tragedy, Then as Farce</i>, <i>In Defense of Lost Causes</i>, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.
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