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Beyond Reason  relates 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 Nürnberg , and  Parsifal . Karol Berger seeks to penetrate the “secret” of large-scale form in Wagner’s music dramas and to answer those critics, most prominently Nietzsche, who condemned Wagner for his putative inability to weld small expressive gestures into larger wholes. Organized by individual opera, this is essential reading for both musicologists and Wagner experts. ** Review "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 ) From the Inside Flap "This study is Wagnerian in its ambition and achievement. Karol Berger makes several astonishing claims: Wagnerians from Nietzsche through Dahlhaus have misunderstood the musical forms; Wagner deri

Who reads Beyond Reason : Wagner Contra Nietzsche?

Author

Karol Berger

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520966130

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Philosophy, Music, Arts

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14