
Beyond Reason
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Karol Berger is the Osgood Hooker Professor in Fine Arts, Department of Music, Stanford University. His award-winning books include Musica Ficta; A Theory of Art; and Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow.
Content
Prologue: Beyond Autonomy
The Uncanny Grace: A Gloss on Kleist's Marionettes
Reason
Beyond Reason
History
Nation
Will
Religion, the Enlightenment, the Counter-Enlightenment: The New Configuration
part one
1. The Secret of Music-Dramatic Form: Music Drama as Opera
2. Der Ring des Nibelungen: The Anarchist Utopia
Das Rheingold: The Fall
Die Walküre: How One Becomes Human
Act 1: Becoming Wagner
Act 2: Becoming Brünnhilde
Act 3: Waiting for the Hero
Siegfried: How One Becomes a Hero
Act 1: Getting the Sword
Act 2: Using It
Act 3: The Awakening
Götterdämmerung: The Apocalypse
Prologue: The Past and the Future
Act 1: The Entrapment 1
Act 2: The Entrapment 2
Act 3: Death and Transfiguration
The Myth of Revolution
part two
3. Tristan und Isolde: The Erotic Utopia
The Lyrical Axis
The Narrative Axis
The Orchestral Strand
The Music-Dramatic Form
The Myth of Will
Postscript
4. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Politics after Tristan
Act 1: The Knight's Failure
Act 2: The Clerk's Failure
Act 3, Part 1: A Lesson in Poetics
Act 3, Part 2: The Shoemaker's Triumph
The Myth of Nation
5. Parsifal: Ethics after Tristan
The Communion Sequences of Acts 1 and 3
The Monologues of Acts 1 and 3
Act 2: The Kiss of Self-Knowledge
The Music-Dramatic Form
Eros and Agape
The Myth of Redemption
Epilogue: Wagner contra Nietzsche
Wagner and Nietzsche: A History of the Relationship
Becoming Nietzsche
Nietzsche contra Wagner, Wagner contra Nietzsche
Appendix 1. Das Rheingold: The Music-Dramatic Plan
Appendix 2. Die Walküre: The Music-Dramatic Plan
Appendix 3. Siegfried: The Music-Dramatic Plan
Appendix 4. Götterdämmerung: The Music-Dramatic Plan
Appendix 5. Tristan und Isolde: The Music-Dramatic Plan
Appendix 6. Die Meistersinger: The Music-Dramatic Plan
Appendix 7. Parsifal: The Music-Dramatic Plan
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations Used in Notes
Notes
Works Consulted
Index
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