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Finding an Ending - Reflections on Wagner's Ring (Paperback, New Ed)
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Finding an Ending - Reflections on Wagner's Ring (Paperback, New Ed)
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Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard
Wagner's four-part Ring of the Nibelung. In Finding an Ending, two
eminent philosophers, Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht, offer an
illuminating look at this greatest of Wagner's achievements,
focusing on its far-reaching and subtle exploration of problems of
meanings and endings in this life and world.
Kitcher and Schacht plunge the reader into the heart of Wagner's
Ring, drawing out the philosophical and human significance of the
text and the music. They show how different forms of love, freedom,
heroism, authority, and judgment are explored and tested as it
unfolds. As they journey across its sweeping musical-dramatic
landscape, Kitcher and Schacht lead us to the central concern of
the Ring--the problem of endowing life with genuine significance
that can be enhanced rather than negated by its ending, if the
right sort of ending can be found. The drama originates in Wotan's
quest for a transformation of the primordial state of things into a
world in which life can be lived more meaningfully. The authors
trace the evolution of Wotan's efforts, the intricate problems he
confronts, and his failures and defeats. But while the problem
Wotan poses for himself proves to be insoluble as he conceives of
it, they suggest that his very efforts and failures set the stage
for the transformation of his problem, and for the only sort of
resolution of it that may be humanly possible--to which it is not
Siegfried but rather Brunnhilde who shows the way.
The Ring's ending, with its passing of the gods above and
destruction of the world below, might seem to be devastating; but
Kitcher and Schacht see a kind of meaning in and throughthe ending
revealed to us that is profoundly affirmative, and that has perhaps
never been so powerfully and so beautifully expressed.
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