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Revolucionarna umjetnost – nacionalizam – antisemitizam: slučaj Wagner
Revolutionary Art – Nationalism – Anti-Semitism: The Case of Wagner

Author(s): Goran Gretić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Hrvatsko politološko društvo
Keywords: Wagner; Nietzsche; Mann; Adorno; anti-Semitism; revolutionary art

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the political aspects of revolutionary art of Richard Wagner. Through reading of Wagner’s artistic-philosophical project by his most influential interpreters – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann and Theodor Adorno – author offers intellectual history of the reception of this project. Discourse on Wagner’s revolutionary art leads to the assessment of the influence Wagner’s cultural anti-Semitism and nationalism had on European politics in 20th century.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 73-93
  • Page Count: 21
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