Satoshi Akima:
>Yes it is precisely here the problem with trying to dissociate Wagner
>from the philosophical foundations of his aesthetics becomes impossible.
>In this instance just listening to the music means to listen from an aloof
>contemplative distance. Yet it is precisely the ideological possibility of
>maintaining such a 'distance' that Wagner's whole philosophical aesthetic
>rejects.
Good!. I agree almost to every word of this paragraph. Wagner is
problematic because he is younger than us. We can't stand, nowadays, any
artistic or philosophical attempt of "wholeness"; we are grown too old for
this.
Pablo Massa
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