Description: Further DetailsTitle: Goethe, Nietzsche, and WagnerCondition: NewSubtitle: Their Spinozan Epics of Love and PowerISBN-10: 0739111272EAN: 9780739111277ISBN: 9780739111277Publisher: Lexington BooksFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/27/2006Description: The author reads Goethe's Faust as the first epic written under Spinoza's influence. He shows how its thematic development is governed by Spinoza's pantheistic naturalism. He further contends that Wagner and Nietzsche have tried to surpass their mentor Goethe's work by writing their own Spinozan epics of love and power in The Ring of the Nibelung and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. These Spinozan epics are designed to succeed the Christian epics in the Western literary tradition. Whereas the Christian epics dared to groom human beings for their destiny in the supernatural world, the Spinozan epics try to reinstate humanity as the children of Mother Nature and overcome their alienation from the natural world, which had been dictated by the long reign of Christianity. However, it has been well noted that none of these new epics seems to hang together thematically as a coherent work. By his Spinozan reading, the author not only demonstrates the thematic unity of each of them singly, but further illustrates their thematic relation with each other.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 170mmItem Width: 36mmItem Weight: 767gAuthor: T. K. SeungGenre: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Goethe, Nietzsche, and Wagner
Title: Goethe, Nietzsche, and Wagner
Subtitle: Their Spinozan Epics of Love and Power
ISBN-10: 0739111272
EAN: 9780739111277
ISBN: 9780739111277
Release Date: 03/27/2006
Release Year: 2006
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 402 Pages
Publication Name: Goethe, Nietzsche, and Wagner : Their Spinozan Epics of Love and Power
Language: English
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Publication Year: 2006
Item Height: 1.4 in
Subject: European / German, Individual Philosophers, General, Genres & Styles / Opera, History & Surveys / Modern
Item Weight: 27.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: T. K. Seung
Subject Area: Music, Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Item Width: 6.7 in
Format: Hardcover
