Einführung zu den Schriften [Richard Wagners]
In Laurenz Lütteken (ed.),
Wagner Handbuch. Bärenreiter. pp. 110-117 (
2012)
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Abstract
In his writings, Richard Wagner imagines art as something natural. This paradox was only befitting for Wagner’s contradictory historical stance: that of an eminently modern artist loathing the modern world. For him, nature served as a yardstick apt to find the modern world deficient on all counts. But how can something ahistorical, nature, be used to judge a historical phenomenon, modernity? To arrive at the verdict Wagner was keen on, he had to fill his concept of nature with historical content attributed to myth.