In this classic guide, the foremost Wagner expert of our century discusses ten of Wagner's most beloved operas, illuminates their key themes and the myths and literary sources behind the librettos, and demonstrates how the composer's style changed from work to work. Acclaimed as the most complete and intellectually satisfying analysis of the Wagner operas, the book has met with...(展开全部)

布莱恩·马吉 著名大学教授，音乐与戏剧评论家，英国国会下院议员，著有《哲学的故事》《叔本华哲学》《瓦格纳概况》。

作者简介：特奥多·阿多尔诺（Theodor W. Adorno，1903—1969），又译阿多诺。德国哲学家、社会学家、音乐理论家，法兰克福学派第一代的主要代表人物，社会批判理论的奠基者。主要著作有《启蒙的辩证法》《否定的辩证法》《美学理论》等。 译者简介：夏凡，1972年生，江苏南通人，哲学博士。致力于19世纪和20世纪的欧洲哲学思想研究，力求继承马克思和阿多尔诺的社会批判理论传统。

作者简介：特奥多·阿多尔诺（Theodor W. Adorno，1903—1969），又译阿多诺。德国哲学家、社会学家、音乐理论家，法兰克福学派第一代的主要代表人物，社会批判理论的奠基者。主要著作有《启蒙的辩证法》《否定的辩证法》《美学理论》等。 译者简介：夏凡，1972年生，江苏南通人，哲学博士。致力于19世纪和20世纪的欧洲哲学思想研究，力求继承马克思和阿多尔诺的社会批判理论传统。

布莱恩·马吉 著名大学教授，音乐与戏剧评论家，英国国会下院议员，著有《哲学的故事》《叔本华哲学》《瓦格纳概况》。

Wagner was one of the few major composers who studied philosophy seriously. Bryan Magee places the composer's artistic development in the context of the philosophy of his age, and gives us the first detailed and comprehensive study of the close links between Wagner and the philosophers - from the pre-Marxist socialists to Feuerbach and Schopenhauer. Magee explores the relations...(展开全部)

The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche's first book. Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche in the brilliant "Attempt at a Self-Criticism" which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most relevant statements on tragedy ever penned. It exploded the conception of Greek culture that was prevalent down through the Vic...(展开全部)

The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche's first book. Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche in the brilliant "Attempt at a Self-Criticism" which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most relevant statements on tragedy ever penned. It exploded the conception of Greek culture that was prevalent down through the Vic...(展开全部)

This new edition includes a lengthy foreword by Slavoj Zizek, entitled "Why is Wagner worth saving?" Richard Wagner's works are among the most controversial in the history of European music—because of their powerful aesthetic qualities and, in wider political terms, because of their eventual assimilation into the official culture of the Third Reich. This concise syno...(展开全部)

Written in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe's most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner's oeuvre with patent musical dexterity, Adorno sheds light on a nineteenth-century bourgeois figure whose operas betray the social gestures and high-culture fantasies that helped plant the seeds of the...(展开全部)