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| | *Goehr, Lydia. ''The quest for voice: On music, politics and the limits of philosophy''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. (Discusses the relationship between philosophy and Wagner's music, and the tangled relationship his music has had with German history.) | | *Goehr, Lydia. ''The quest for voice: On music, politics and the limits of philosophy''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. (Discusses the relationship between philosophy and Wagner's music, and the tangled relationship his music has had with German history.) |
| − | *Magee, Bryan. ''The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy'', New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001. (The most in-depth English resource about Wagner's knowledge of philosophy, and the philosophy inspired by Wagner. The appendix, entitled "Wagner's Anti-Semitism," is also an excellent and even-handed discussion of this issue.) | + | *[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tristan-Chord-Wagner-Philosophy/dp/080507189X/ref=pd_cp_b_2 Magee, Bryan. ''The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy''], New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001. (The most in-depth English resource about Wagner's knowledge of philosophy, and the philosophy inspired by Wagner, written in a straightforward style accessible to non-musicians. The appendix, entitled "Wagner's Anti-Semitism," is also an excellent and even-handed discussion of this issue.) |
| | *Steiger, Karsten. "Liebe, Tod, Erlösung: Richard Wagners Tristan und der Einfluß Schopenhauers" in ''Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch'' 76 (1995), pp. 103-132. (Discusses how Wagner's philosophy diverges from Schopenhauer's.) | | *Steiger, Karsten. "Liebe, Tod, Erlösung: Richard Wagners Tristan und der Einfluß Schopenhauers" in ''Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch'' 76 (1995), pp. 103-132. (Discusses how Wagner's philosophy diverges from Schopenhauer's.) |
| | *Weismüller, Christoph. ''Musik, Traum und Medien: Philosophie des musikdramatischen Gesamtkunstwerks--Ein medienphilosophischer Beitrag zu Richard Wagners öffentlicher Traumarbeit'' (''Music, dream, and the media: The philosophy of the musical and dramatic Gesamtkunstwerk--An essay from a philosopher of the media on Richard Wagner’s public processing of his dreams''). Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2001. (Places Wagner's "Gesamtkunstwerk" in the context of the long history of "multimedia," stretching from the Ancient Greeks to present day multimedia conceptions.) | | *Weismüller, Christoph. ''Musik, Traum und Medien: Philosophie des musikdramatischen Gesamtkunstwerks--Ein medienphilosophischer Beitrag zu Richard Wagners öffentlicher Traumarbeit'' (''Music, dream, and the media: The philosophy of the musical and dramatic Gesamtkunstwerk--An essay from a philosopher of the media on Richard Wagner’s public processing of his dreams''). Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2001. (Places Wagner's "Gesamtkunstwerk" in the context of the long history of "multimedia," stretching from the Ancient Greeks to present day multimedia conceptions.) |