Politics · 20 min
Wagnerism
By Alex Ross
This episode explores how Richard Wagner's revolutionary art became an invisible, often unsettling, force shaping modern culture, politics, and even our deepest myths.
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Politics
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20 min
What it is about
Wagner, cultural influence, art history, political impact
Who it is for
If you've ever felt the unsettling pull of art with a complicated past, or wondered how grand ideas subtly shape our collective consciousness, this will illuminate those hidden connections, and this will help you see what to do next.
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Alex Ross, a Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic, meticulously traces Wagner's vast, often contradictory, impact across two centuries of art, philosophy, and political thought, revealing the hidden threads connecting his work to our world.
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