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Wagner --- Richard --- 1813-1883. Ring des Nibelungen

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The present study of Giambattista Vico’s defining work, La Scienza nuova (The New Science) is concerned with an approach to the work that pays requisite attention not only to the content but also to its form. To that end, Horst Steinke proposes that Scienza nuova possesses the structure of a ring composition by which individual parts of the work relate to each other in complex but identifiable ways. This approach, which is developed through a discussion of all five Books that make up the work, also leads to, or implies, certain constraints on the interpretation of Vico’s thought, resulting from an interplay of form and content. Since Vico made Homer the centerpiece of his own work, Vico’s hermeneutics are discussed in the context of his underlying philosophy of language, and both are compared with Spinoza’s thought. Finally, the so-called “Homeric question”, in Vico’s view, is addressed in an original way.

B. Spinoza --- Ring composition --- Category theory --- Homer --- G. Vico

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The present study of Giambattista Vico’s defining work, La Scienza nuova (The New Science) is concerned with an approach to the work that pays requisite attention not only to the content but also to its form. To that end, Horst Steinke proposes that Scienza nuova possesses the structure of a ring composition by which individual parts of the work relate to each other in complex but identifiable ways. This approach, which is developed through a discussion of all five Books that make up the work, also leads to, or implies, certain constraints on the interpretation of Vico’s thought, resulting from an interplay of form and content. Since Vico made Homer the centerpiece of his own work, Vico’s hermeneutics are discussed in the context of his underlying philosophy of language, and both are compared with Spinoza’s thought. Finally, the so-called “Homeric question”, in Vico’s view, is addressed in an original way.

B. Spinoza --- Ring composition --- Category theory --- Homer --- G. Vico --- B. Spinoza --- Ring composition --- Category theory --- Homer --- G. Vico

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Mark Berry explores the political and religious ideas expounded in Wagner's Ring through close attention to the text and drama, the multifarious intellectual influences upon the composer during the work's lengthy gestation and composition, and the wealth of Wagner source material. Many of his writings are explicitly political in their concerns, for Wagner was emphatically not a revolutionary solely for the sake of art. Yet it would be misleading to see even the most 'political' tracts as somehow divorced from the aesthetic realm; Wagner's radical challenge to liberal-democratic politics makes no such distinction. This book considers Wagner's treatment of various worlds: nature, politics, economics and metaphysics, in order to explain just how radical that challenge is.

Wagner, Richard --- Political and social views. --- Wagner, Richard, --- Ring des Nibelungen (Wagner, Richard) --- Opera

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Die berühmte Ringparabel aus G. E. Lessings ›Nathan der Weise‹ hat bis in unsere Gegenwart hinein nichts an ihrer Faszinationskraft und Wirkmacht eingebüßt. Zahlreiche Versuche, die Ringparabel zu aktualisieren, bezeugen zwar die große Bedeutung des Textes in der gegenwärtigen Toleranzdebatte, führen aber zu einer instrumentellen Disqualifizierung der Erzählung zum feuilletonistischen Gemeinplatz. Auf diese Weise gerät nicht nur der komplexe ästhetische Rahmen der Parabel in Lessings ›Dramatischem Gedicht‹ aus dem Blickfeld; es wird auch vergessen, dass die Ringparabel selbst eine lange Überlieferungsgeschichte besitzt und dass sie ein ebenso zentrales Erzählmuster des Toleranz- wie des Intoleranzdiskurses darstellte. Der vorliegende Band möchte gegen die präsentistischen Reduktionen und Missverständnisse der Ringparabel die literarische Geschichte dieses wirkmächtigen Erzählmodells rekonstruieren und an diesem Leitfaden entlang eine Archäologie des europäischen Toleranzgedankens liefern. Erhellt werden zunächst die Transformationen der Parabel von der Antike bis zu Boccaccios Melchisedech-Novelle, um dann auf Lessing einzugehen und dessen Rezeption bis in die Moderne zu verfolgen.

Literature. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Boccaccio, Giovanni, --- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, --- Boccaccio, Giovanni. --- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. --- Ring Parable. --- tolerance.