Index

A
Adorno, Theodor, 1 , 2 , 3
alliteration, 1.1-1.2
anarchism, 1.1-1.2
Antigone, 1.1-1.2
anti-Semitism, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3
Aristotle, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
art
v. Christianity, 1.1-1.2
commodification of, 1.1-1.2
communal need for, 1.1-1.2
as consolation, 1
decline of Greek, 1.1-1.2
Greek tragedy, 1.1-1.2
later Wagner on, 1.1-1.2 , 2
v. philosophy, 1.1-1.2
Renaissance, 1.1-1.2
Schopenhauer on, 1.1-1.2
and wonder, 1.1-1.2
See also artwork See also music See also opera See also tragedy, Greek See also tragedy, Schopenhauer on
artwork
broad v. narrow, 1
as collective, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2
and communal ethos, 1.1-1.2
communal need for, 1.1-1.2
communal scale of, 1.1-1.2
as consolation, 1
and ethical diversity, 1.1-1.2
as festival, 1.1-1.2
as myth, 1.1-1.2
as occasional, 1
as sacred, 1.1-1.2
as voice of the people, 1.1-1.2
Wagner’s operas as, 1.1-1.2
and wonder, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2
words v. music, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2
See also art See also opera See also tragedy, Greek See also tragedy, Schopenhauer on
B
Bach, J. S., 1
Bakunin, Mikhail, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
Benjamin, Walter, 1.1-1.2
Berenson, Bernard, 1
Borchmeyer, Dieter, 1
British Broadcasting Corporation, 1.1-1.2
C
capitalism
critique of, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3
effect on art, 1.1-1.2
Christianity
v. art, 1.1-1.2
Feuerbach on, 1.1-1.2
and love, 1.1-1.2
See also religion
cinema, 1.1-1.2
community
Catholic v. Protestant approach to, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2
collected by artwork, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2
and ethical diversity, 1.1-1.2
as exclusionary, 1.1-1.2
Feuerbach on, 1.1-1.2
and meaning of life, 1.1-1.2
need for art, 1.1-1.2
Nietzsche’s affirmation of, 1.1-1.2
craft, 1.1-1.2
D
Das Rheingold, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4 , 5 , 6
death
and love, 1.1-1.2
Schopenhauer on, 1.1-1.2
Wagner on, 1.1-1.2
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, 1 , 2.1-2.2
diversity, ethical, 1.1-1.2
E
Eliot, T. S., 1
emotion, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2
Enlightenment, Romantic critique of, 1.1-1.2
ethics
and religion, 1
Schopenhauer on, 1.1-1.2
Wagner on, 1.1-1.2
Euripides, 1 , 2
F
Festival Theater, 1.1-1.2
Feuerbach, Ludwig
on Christianity, 1.1-1.2
on community, 1.1-1.2
on love, 1.1-1.2
Freud, Sigmund, 1.1-1.2
G
genius, 1.1-1.2
Gesamtkunstwerk See artwork See community See tragedy, Greek
Gӧtterdämmerung, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
See also Ring cycle
Greece, ancient, 1.1-1.2
See also tragedy, Greek
H
Hegel, G. F. W., 1.1-1.2
Hegelianism, 1.1-1.2
Heidegger, Martin, 1.1-1.2 , 2
I
idealism, metaphysical
Kant’s, 1.1-1.2
Schopenhauer’s, 1.1-1.2
Wagner’s, 1 , 2.1-2.2
J
Jesus, 1
K
Kant, Immanuel, 1.1-1.2
on the sublime, 1.1-1.2
Kierkegaard, Soren, 1
Kitcher, Philip, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3
L
language
alliteration, 1.1-1.2
primitive v. modern, 1.1-1.2
rhyme, 1.1-1.2
vowels, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2
See also words v. music
leitmotif, 1
Liebestod, 1.1-1.2
Liszt, Franz, 1.1-1.2
Lohengrin, 1.1-1.2
love
Christian, 1.1-1.2
and death, 1.1-1.2
excluded by modernity, 1.1-1.2
Feuerbach on, 1.1-1.2
v. power, 1.1-1.2
and redemption, 1.1-1.2
sexual, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2
in Tristan und Isolde, 1.1-1.2
M
Magee, Bryan, 1 , 2
Mann, Thomas, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3
Marxism, 1.1-1.2
meaning of life, 1.1-1.2
media, electronic, 1.1-1.2
modernity
critique of, 1.1-1.2
Protestant individualism in, 1.1-1.2
Roman anticipation of, 1
music
absolute, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2 , 5
and emotion, 1.1-1.2
form in opera, 1.1-1.2
later Wagner on, 1.1-1.2
leitmotif, 1
rock, 1.1-1.2
Schopenhauer on, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2
the sublime in, 1.1-1.2
v. words, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2 , 5.1-5.2
mysticism
Schopenhauer on, 1.1-1.2
Wagner on, 1.1-1.2 , 2
myth
tragic artwork as, 1.1-1.2
as universal, 1.1-1.2
N
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2
affirmation of community, 1.1-1.2
on opera as narcotic, 1.1-1.2
O
opera
as artwork, 1.1-1.2
critique of modern, 1.1-1.2
leitmotif, 1
as narcotic, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2
primacy of aria, 1.1-1.2
problem of form, 1.1-1.2
Schopenhauer on, 1.1-1.2
words v. music, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2
See also art See also artwork
P
Parsifal, 1.1-1.2
pessimism
Schopenhauer’s, 1.1-1.2
Wagner’s, 1.1-1.2
philosophy
v. art, 1.1-1.2
Plato, 1.1-1.2
postmodern nihilism, 1.1-1.2 , 2
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph, 1.1-1.2 , 2
R
redemption
love and, 1.1-1.2
in Parsifal, 1.1-1.2
Schopenhauer on, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2
Wagner on, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2
Reith, John, 1.1-1.2
religion
Catholic v. Protestant approach to, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3.1-3.2
and ethics, 1
Schopenhauer on, 1
Wagner on, 1.1-1.2 , 2
See also Christianity
Renaissance art, 1.1-1.2
Revolution of 1848, 1.1-1.2
rhyme, 1.1-1.2
Ring cycle (Der Ring des Nibelungen), 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2
See also Das Rheingold See also Gӧtterdämmerung
Roman culture, 1.1-1.2
Feuerbach on, 1.1-1.2
S
Schacht, Richard, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1.1-1.2
on art, 1.1-1.2
on the beautiful, 1
on death, 1.1-1.2
on emotion, 1.1-1.2
on ethics, 1.1-1.2 , 2
life as suffering, 1.1-1.2
metaphysical idealism, 1.1-1.2 , 2
on music, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2
on mysticism, 1.1-1.2
on opera, 1.1-1.2
on redemption, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3
on religion, 1
on the sublime, 1.1-1.2
on tragedy, 1.1-1.2
Wagner’s appropriation of, 1.1-1.2
will as reality, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2
on words v. music, 1.1-1.2
Scruton, Roger, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2
Seneca, 1
Shaw, George Bernard, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
Shelley, Mary, 1
sport, 1
T
the state, critique of, 1.1-1.2
the sublime
Schopenhauer on, 1.1-1.2
in tragedy, 1.1-1.2
Wagner on, 1.1-1.2
S
suffering, 1.1-1.2
T
Tanner, Michael, 1
Tolkien, J. R. R., 1.1-1.2
tragedy, Greek, 1.1-1.2
as collective artwork, 1.1-1.2
and communal ethos, 1.1-1.2
communal need for, 1.1-1.2
decline of, 1.1-1.2
as myth, 1.1-1.2
as occasional, 1
as sacred, 1.1-1.2
as voice of the people, 1.1-1.2
See also art See also artwork
tragedy, Schopenhauer on, 1.1-1.2
Tristan und Isolde, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9
V
virtue See ethics
vowels, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2
W
will See Schopenhauer, Arthur
words v. music, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2 , 5.1-5.2
See also language
work, 1.1-1.2