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“In a society that has abolished every kind of adventure the only adventure that remains is to abolish the society.”
—Situationist graffito, May 1968
As a political ideology, fascism was a mixed bag of 20th-century ideas. Its athletic presence hung with flirty, politically expedient schemes like universal suffrage, in many ways last century’s fascism was defined by its responses to other political movements of the time—like Marxism and liberal capitalism. Read more …
Bryan Magee’s The Tristan Chord
Bryan Magee
The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000
Bryan Magee’s The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy (just Wagner and Philosophy in the UK) combines two of my favorite subjects into an informative, stimulating, and highly readable book. Creativity and critical reflection are two very different activities, and excellence in one is seldom accompanied by excellence in the other. Read more …