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BOSTON PUBLIC UBRARY Copley Square WAGNER Race and revolution by the same author THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE OF MATHEMATICS BODIN AND THE GREAT GOD OF NATURE SELECTED WRITINGS OF JEAN BODIN ON PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION AND POLITICS (editor) HEINE’S HISTORY OF RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY IN GERMANY (editor) ARCHIVES OF THE HOLOCAUST: THE HECHT ARCHIVE (editor) REVOLUTIONARY ANTISEMITISM IN GERMANY FROM KANT TO WAGNER WAGNER Race and Revolution PAUL LAWRENCE ROSE Yale University Press New Haven and London Published in the United States by Yale University Press and in the United Kingdom by Paber and Faber Limited Photoset by Parker Typesetting Service, Leicester Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives pic All rights reserved © Paul Lawrence Rose, 1992 This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 ofthe U.S. Copyright Law and except for reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library'. Library ofCongress catalogue card number; 92-53588 International standard book number: 0-300—05182-4 (cloth) 0-300-06745-3 (pbk.) 3579 8642 10 As ever, for Susan Digitized by the Internet Archive 2017 with funding from in Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/wagnerOOpaul 11 CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix INTRODUCTION The Problem: The Two Wagners i The German Revolution and the Birth ofa New Antisemitism 6 1 Fichte’s Legacy 6 Fichte’s Heirs 1 2 Wagner’s Early Revolutionism 1813-47 23 The Young German 23 The Romantic Nationalist 27 The Young Hegelian 28 The Heinean 3 A Normal Revolutionary Antisemite 35 Wagner Turns on Meyerbeer: The Struensee and Rienzi 3 Scandals of 1847 40 ‘An alien element in German literary life’ 40 ‘The tendency ofthe time to sink into utter worthlessness’ 44 4 An Epiphany: Revolutionism and Antisemitism 1848-9 49 The Revolutionary Faith:jfesus and ‘Judaism’ 50 Revolutionaries: Feuerbach, Rockel, Bakunin, Proudhon 58 Race and Revolutionism in the Ring 66 5 Revolutionary Antisemitism 1849-50: ‘Judaism in Music’ 73 Meyerbeer and Paris Revisited, 1849-50 74 ‘Judaism in Music’ 78 6 A New Dream ofRevolution 1850-64: Schopenhauer and Aryan Christianity 89 9 11 A New German Politics 1864-76: German Culture and 7 German 102 Politics 8 Apologizing for Wagner: Wagner’sJewish Friends and the Antisemitic Petition 1 1 The ‘House-Jews’: Levi, Tausig, Rubinstein 1 19 The Breaking ofBerthold Auerbach 1 24 The Antisemitic Petition and Angelo Neumann 128 9 Regeneration and Redemption 1876-83 135 Race and Regeneration: Darwin, Gleizes and Gobineau 136 Aryan Christianity in the Regeneration Writings 4 1 Parsifal and the Racial Revolution 158 10 Looking Back 170 An Operatic Career 170 A Revolutionary Career 1 73 11 Looking Forward 177 Revolutionary Destruction, Revolutionary Redemption 177 The Revolutionary Racial Redeemer 8 1 APPENDIX A Berthold Auerbach: ‘Richard Wagner and the Self-respect oftheJews’ 1 85 APPENDIX B Wagner in Israel 189 NOTES 193 FURTHER READING 233 INDEX 235
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