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A leading radical [[intellectual ]] tackles the many controversial [[interpretations ]] of Wagner’s [[work]].

For over a century, Richard Wagner’s [[music ]] has been the [[subject ]] of intense debate among [[philosophers]], many of whom have attacked its ideological—some say racist and reactionary—underpinnings. In this major new work, [[Alain ]] [[Badiou]], radical [[philosopher ]] and keen [[Wagner ]] enthusiast, offers a detailed [[reading ]] of the critical responses to the composer’s work, which include Adorno’s writings on the composer and Wagner’s recuperation by [[Nazism ]] as well as more [[recent ]] readings by [[Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe ]] and [[others]]. [[Slavoj Žižek ]] provides an afterword, and both philosophers make a passionate [[case ]] for re-examining the relevance of Wagner to the contemporary [[world]].