Leituras para férias: Scruton e o peculiar humanismo de Wagner

"Wagner was an artist with an agenda, and this agenda was nothing less than the redemption of mankind.

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In pursuing this idea Wagner could fairly be described as one of the great humanists of modern times. But he was a humanist of a peculiar kind, who recognized humanity's religious need and tried to make man his own redeemer, so as to ennoble the human beyond the divine. This attempt compelled him toward idealism and pessimism in equal measure - idealism about our nature, pessimism about our lot."

- Roger Scruton, Death-devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde