/lit/ - Literature

>Not one rich faculty of the separate arts will remain unused in the Gesamtkunstwerk of the Future
Did Wagner succeed in creating his Gesamtkunstwerk?

>>19928575

>>19620640
Parsifal.

>One day, over lunch, Wagner rates Plato's Symposium above all other literary works: 'In Shakespeare we see Nature as it is, here we have the artistic awareness of the benefactor added; what would the world know about redeeming beauty without Plato?'

>What led Spinoza to support himself as a glass grinder; what filled our Schopenhauer with the anxiety to preserve undiminished his small inheritance, determining his whole outward life and indeed inexplicable traits of his character, namely his insight that the truthfulness of any philosophical investigation is seriously jeopardised by the need to earn money from intellectual work: these same things determined Beethoven’s defiance of the world, his propensity to solitude and the almost primitive habits that determined his chosen way of life.

What does 'Wagnerian fatalism' mean?

>>19238574
>There is an article about Nietzsche's fröhliche Wissenschaft [The Joyful Science] in [Ernst] Schmeitzner's monthly [Internationale Monatsschrift 1, no. 11 (1882): 685–95]; I talk about it, and R. glances through it, only then to express his utter disgust with it. The things in it of any value, he says, have all been borrowed from Schopenhauer, and he dislikes everything about the man.

>>18155696
NO.

>>18076867
Go to the source.

>tfw no silk

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>>17448928
"No."