/lit/ - Literature

>>20969234
just when I thought the man couldn't possibly become more based

>>20830742
Read Wagner's essays The Destiny of Opera and Actors and Singers. In the latter is his most extensive discussion of the nature of drama and how to regenerate it.

>>20800538
Wagner.

>Wagner was to the end of his life a philosopher. All the currents of philosophical thinking that were important in his day, from Fichte's idolisation of the self to Marx's critique of the capitalist economy, and from Feuerbach's repudiation of religion to Schopenhauer's theory of the will, left traces in his dramas. There is no work of philosophy that delves so deeply into the paradoxes of erotic love as Tristan and Isolde, no work of Christian theology that matches Wagner's exploration of the Eucharist in Parsifal, and no work of political theory that uncovers the place of power and law in the human psyche with the perceptiveness of The Ring.
- Roger Scruton