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Author of ASPECTS OF WAGNER

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Jul 27, 2019, 1:09:47 PM7/27/19
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Bert Coules

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Jul 28, 2019, 10:17:07 AM7/28/19
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This is sad news; it's a while since I read it but I remember his Wagner
book as being excellent and very well written. Unsurprisingly so: I heard
him speak several times and he was a vivid communicator. Aspects of Wagner
is still available:

https://tinyurl.com/y3hl59yy

Full link:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aspects-Wagner-Revised-Enlarged-Paperbacks/dp/0192840126/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3D4R5RF83ONVH&keywords=aspects+of+wagner&qid=1564323326&s=gateway&sprefix=Aspecyts+of+Wagner%2Caps%2C138&sr=8-1

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Jul 28, 2019, 7:04:20 PM7/28/19
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Jul 30, 2019, 3:53:09 AM7/30/19
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- To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter end of my existence, with no successor existence of any kind that can be related to me as I now am. And if that is not the case, the next most likely scenario, it seems to me, is something along the lines indicated by Schopenhauer. But neither of these is what I most want. What I want to be true is that I have an individual, innermost self, a soul, which is the real me and which survives my death. That too could be true. But alas, I do not believe it.

Bryan Magee

RANDY WOLFGANG

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Jul 30, 2019, 8:53:29 AM7/30/19
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Dogbertd

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Aug 1, 2019, 10:51:06 AM8/1/19
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Magee was one of the few writers to take Wagner seriously as a thinker
(I suppose Roger Scruton is another although I've yet to read any of
his books on Wagner). Magee's book on Schopenhauer is excellent and has
a large chapter on Schopenhauer and Wagner which I've always found to
be hugely convincing, providing a philosophical rationale for Tristan,
Meistersinger and Parsifal.

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Aug 1, 2019, 1:40:00 PM8/1/19
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Nov 4, 2019, 3:26:06 AM11/4/19
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According to this recent article:

- When the philosopher Bryan Magee died in July there were numerous tributes online and in the papers. But on the BBC, where he had made his name presenting Men of Ideas (1978) and The Great Philosophers (1987), there was nothing. No tributes, no repeats, not even on iPlayer.

https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/10/death-great-cultural-critic

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Nov 4, 2019, 6:59:35 PM11/4/19
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The BBC is not what it used to be.

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