{"product_id":"beyond-reason-9780520292758","title":"Beyond Reason","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRelates Wagner's works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career: Der Ring des Nibelungen, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, and Parsifal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The author develops his new interpretative perspective with so much mastery and such highly reflective circumspection that he is sure to convince even some inveterate Nietzscheans. ... Karol Berger has written a great and momentous book, and only now the work begins. What more could one wish from the contemporary Wagner research?\" * Wagnerspectrum *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an exceptionally clear and accessible book on topics on which it is traditionally difficult to be clear and accessible: the origin, genesis, and nature of Wagner's achievement in his ‘music dramas’, and the evaluation of these dramas in terms of their impact on German culture from a philosophical point of view. . . .Musicologists will have a feast with this work, as Berger surprisingly shows the origin of Wagner's musical forms in Italian operatic models, and also shows how superficial and incorrect was Nietzsche's later, spiteful criticism of his former master and idol. . .\" * The Heythrop Journal *\u003cbr\u003e“… it is the textual-critical in­terpretation of Wagner’s works that is most satisfying in \u003ci\u003eBeyond Reason\u003c\/i\u003e. Berger’s freshly imagined and vividly expounded narratives have most in common with such apprecia­tive readings, of a predominantly literary character, as those published in recent years by Richard H. Bell, Paul Dawson-Bowling and Roger Scruton….Berger deploys his chosen terminology with confidence, and argues for his interpretations with eloquence and unflagging commitment.” * The Wagner Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   Prologue: Beyond Autonomy  The Uncanny Grace: A Gloss on Kleist's Marionettes  Reason  Beyond Reason   History   Nation   Will  Religion, the Enlightenment, the Counter-Enlightenment: The New Configuration   part one  1. The Secret of Music-Dramatic Form: Music Drama as Opera  2. Der Ring des Nibelungen: The Anarchist Utopia  Das Rheingold: The Fall  Die Walkure: How One Becomes Human   Act 1: Becoming Wagner   Act 2: Becoming Brunnhilde   Act 3: Waiting for the Hero  Siegfried: How One Becomes a Hero   Act 1: Getting the Sword   Act 2: Using It   Act 3: The Awakening  Gotterdammerung: The Apocalypse   Prologue: The Past and the Future   Act 1: The Entrapment 1   Act 2: The Entrapment 2   Act 3: Death and Transfiguration   The Myth of Revolution   part two  3. Tristan und Isolde: The Erotic Utopia   The Lyrical Axis   The Narrative Axis   The Orchestral Strand   The Music-Dramatic Form   The Myth of Will  Postscript  4. Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Politics after Tristan   Act 1: The Knight's Failure   Act 2: The Clerk's Failure   Act 3, Part 1: A Lesson in Poetics   Act 3, Part 2: The Shoemaker's Triumph   The Myth of Nation  5. Parsifal: Ethics after Tristan   The Communion Sequences of Acts 1 and 3   The Monologues of Acts 1 and 3   Act 2: The Kiss of Self-Knowledge   The Music-Dramatic Form   Eros and Agape   The Myth of Redemption   Epilogue: Wagner contra Nietzsche   Wagner and Nietzsche: A History of the Relationship   Becoming Nietzsche   Nietzsche contra Wagner, Wagner contra Nietzsche   Appendix 1. Das Rheingold: The Music-Dramatic Plan  Appendix 2. Die Walkure: The Music-Dramatic Plan  Appendix 3. Siegfried: The Music-Dramatic Plan  Appendix 4. Gotterdammerung: The Music-Dramatic Plan  Appendix 5. Tristan und Isolde: The Music-Dramatic Plan  Appendix 6. Die Meistersinger: The Music-Dramatic Plan  Appendix 7. Parsifal: The Music-Dramatic Plan  Acknowledgments  Abbreviations Used in Notes  Notes  Works Consulted  Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402889371991,"sku":"9780520292758","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-reason-9780520292758","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}