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245 10 a| Finding an ending :b| reflections on Wagner's Ring /c| Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht.;

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300 a| xi, 241 pages ;c| 21 cm;

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520 a| Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner's four-part Ring of the Nibelung. This volume offers an illuminating look at the greatest of Wagner's achievements, focusing on its far-reaching and subtle exploration of problems of meanings and endings in this life and world. The authors 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, the authors 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 Brünnhilde 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 the authors see a kind of meaning in and through the ending revealed to us that is profoundly affirmative, and that has perhaps never been so powerfully and so beautifully expressed.;

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Finding an ending : reflections on Wagner's Ring / Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht.

Author/creator	Kitcher, Philip, 1947-
Other author	Schacht, Richard, 1941-
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Description	xi, 241 pages ; 21 cm
Subjects	Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Ring des Nibelungen. Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Contents	Introduction -- Wagner's philosophers -- Authority and judgment in Don Giovanni -- Alberich and Fricka -- Wotan's challenge -- Meaning and the tradition -- Meaning and the Ring -- Wotan's project -- Wotan's problem -- Loge -- Erda -- Wotan's judgments -- Project Siegfried -- Wotan's dilemmas -- Wotan's authority -- Siegmund and Sieglinde -- Varieties of love -- Brunnhilde's progress -- Brunnhilde's transformation -- Brunnhilde's authority -- Siegfried and other problems -- Ending and renewal -- Synopsis of The Ring.
Abstract	Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner's four-part Ring of the Nibelung. This volume offers an illuminating look at the greatest of Wagner's achievements, focusing on its far-reaching and subtle exploration of problems of meanings and endings in this life and world. The authors 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, the authors 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 Brünnhilde 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 the authors see a kind of meaning in and through the ending revealed to us that is profoundly affirmative, and that has perhaps never been so powerfully and so beautifully expressed.
General note	Originally published: 2004.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN	0195183606 (pbk.)
ISBN	9780195183603 (pbk.)

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