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Introduction. The problem: the two Wagners -- The German revolution and the birth of a new antisemitism. Fichte's legacy ; Fichte's heirs -- Wagner's early revolutionism, 1813-47. The young German ; The Romantic nationalist ; The young Hegelian ; The Heinean ; A normal revolutionary antisemite -- Wagner turns on Meyerbeer: the Struensee and Rienzi scandals of 1847. 'An alien element in German literary life' ; 'The tendency of the time to sink into utter worthlessness' -- An epiphany: Revolutionism and antisemitism 1848-9. The revolutionary faith: Jesus and 'Judaism' ; Revolutionaries: Feuerbach, Röckel, Bakunin, Proudhon ; Race and revolutionism in the Ring -- Revolutionary antisemitism 1849-50: 'Judaism in music'. Meyerbeer and Paris revisited, 1849-50 ; 'Judaism in music' -- A new dream of revolution 1850-64: Schopenhauer and Aryan Christianity -- A new German politics 1864-76: German culture and German politics -- Apologizing for Wagner: Wagner's Jewish friends and the antisemitic petition. The 'house-jews': Levi, Tausig, Rubinstein ; The breaking of Berthold Auerbach ; The antisemitic petition and Angelo Neumann -- Regeneration and redemption 1876-83. Race and regeneration: Darwin, Gleizès and Gobineau ; Aryan Christianity in the regeneration writings ; Parsifal and the racial revolution -- Looking back. An operatic career ; A revolutionary career -- Looking forward. Revolutionary destruction, revolutionary redemption ; The revolutionary racial redeemer -- Appendix A. Berthold Auerbach: 'Richard Wagner and the self-respect of the Jews' -- Appendix B. Wagner in Israel. |
