Mozart's "Don Giovanni" is an operatic masterpiece full of
iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work
redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the
resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply
rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism.
"The" Don Giovanni "Moment" is the first book to examine the
aesthetic and moral legacy of Mozart's opera in the literature,
philosophy, and culture of the nineteenth century. The prominent
scholars in this collection address the opera's impact on the
philosophical visions of Kierkegaard, Goethe, and Williams and its
influence on the literary and dramatic works of Pushkin, Hoffmann,
M?rike, Byron, Wagner, Strauss, and Shaw. Through a close and
careful analysis of "Don Giovanni"'s literary and philosophical
reception and its many appropriations, rewritings, and retellings,
these contributors treat the opera as a vantage point from which
theory and philosophy can reconsider romanticism's central
themes.
As lively and passionate as the opera itself, these essays
continue the spirited debate over the meaning and character of "Don
Giovanni" and its powerful legacy. Together they prove that
Mozart's brilliant artistic achievement is as potent and relevant
today as when it was first performed two centuries ago.
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