Finding an Ending

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-517359-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 253 Seiten

Kitcher and Schact offer a reading of 'The Rin' that sees it as a deep and important exploration of the problem of whether and how human life can be endowed with meaning and significance, in a world in which this problem must be considered anew and has no easy answer.

Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner's four-part Ring of the Nibelungs. In Finding an Ending, two eminent philosophers, Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht, offer an illuminating look at this greatest of Wagner's achievement