>>24925821His own.
>>24925821Roger Scruton's books
>>24925821His ideas were not his own, for the most part. Alongside Schopenhauer’s works, Feuerbach had the most influence on him, specifically on the philosophy in the Ring.
>>24925821>The Wagner Case, NietzscheAdorno has some essays on him.
>>24926044Feuerbach and later Schopenhauer provided the intellectual framework for Wagner to express himself but they both resented the fact that he took their philosophies in a completely new direction. No one would expect The Artwork of the Future and the Ring Cycle to be the outcome of reading Feuerbach anymore than they would expect Tristan und Isolde and the Beethoven essay to be the outcome of reading Schopenhauer.>For it is a matter of demonstrating a path of salvation recognised by none of the philosophers, particularly not by Sch., the pathway to complete pacification of the Will through love, and that no abstract love of mankind, but the love which actually blossoms from the soil of sexual love, i.e. from the affection between man and woman. It is conclusive, that I am able to use for this (as philosopher, not as poet, since as such I have my own) the terminology which Sch. himself supplies me. The exposition leads very deep and far, for it embraces a preciser explanation of the state in which we become able to apprehend Ideas, as also of that of Genius (Genialitaf), which I no longer conceive as a state of disengagement of the intellect from the will, but rather as an enhancement of the intellect of the individual to a cognitive organ of the race itself (Erkenntnissorgan der Gattung), thus of the Will as Thing-in-itself; whence alone, moreover, is to be explained that strange enthusiastic joyfulness and rapture in the supreme moments of genial cognition which Sch. seems hardly to know, as he can find it [i.e. that mode of cognition] only in repose and in the silencing of the individual passions. Quite analogously to this conception, I then arrive with greatest certainty at proving in Love a possibility of attaining to that exaltation above the instinct of the individual will where, after complete subjection of this latter, the racial will comes to full consciousness of itself; which upon this height is necessarily tantamount to complete pacification. All this will be made clear even to the inexperienced, if my statement succeeds; whilst the result cannot but be very significant, and entirely and satisfactorily fill the gaps in Schopenhauer's system.
>>24925821This is a pretty good intro.
>>24925821The Science of Music - Logier
