Remembering Richard Wagner
(May 22, 1813-February 13, 1883)

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Richard Wagner was born on May 22, 1813 in Leipzig in the Kingdom of Saxony. He died on February 13, 1883 in Venice. As an artist, intellectual, author, and cultural force, Wagner has left an immense metapolitical legacy, which is being evaluated and appropriated in the North American New Right. I wish to draw your attention to the following writings which have been published at Counter-Currents.

Also of note is Collin Cleary’s book Wagner’s Ring and the Germanic Tradition, published by Wagnerphile Books.

About Wagner

• Kerry Bolton, “Wagner as Metapolitical Revolutionary.”
• Jonathan Bowden, “Frankfurt School Revisionism.”
• Collin Cleary, “Wagner’s Place in the Germanic Tradition,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8
• Jef Costello, “Rage Against the Machine: A Very American Ring Cycle.”
• Gabriele D’Annunzio, “Tristan and Isolde.”
• Alexander Jacob, “The Aryan Christian Religion and Politics of Richard Wagner” (French translation here)
• Greg Johnson, “Make Rome Great Again: Rienzi in Berlin.”
• Greg Johnson, Review of Bryan Magee’s Aspects of Wagner
• Greg Johnson, Review of Bryan Magee’s The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
• Emi Mann Kawaguchi, “Yukio Mishima and Richard Wagner: Art and Politics, or Love and Death.”
• Kurwenal, “Wagner, Nietzsche, and the New Suprahumanist Myth,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• John Morgan, “I Saw the World End: Wagner’s Ring in Munich.”
• John Morgan, “Boomer Bayreuth: Wagner’s Parsifal at the Festspielhaus in 2018.”
• Sir Oswald Mosley, “The Meaning of Wagner’s Ring.”
• James J. O’Meara, “My Wagner Problem — and Ours.”
• Christopher Pankhurst, “Parsifal and the Possibility of Transcendence.”
• Quintilian, “Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen.”
• Brenton Sanderson, “Evil Genius: Constructing Wagner as Moral Pariah,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
• Deems Taylor, “The Monster” (Portuguese translation here)
• Theberton, “Wagner and Great Art” (Video of the Day)
• Donald Thoresen, “A Life with Wagner.”
• Michael Walker, “Roger Scruton’s Death-Devoted Heart,” Part 1, Part 2
• Richard Widmann, “Never Surrender: Wagner on War and Culture.”

You can buy Collin Cleary’s Wagner’s Ring & the Germanic Tradition here.

Relevant to Wagner:

• Anthony Bavaria, “Christopher Pankhurst’s Numinous Machines.”
• Kerry Bolton, “Wotan as Archetype: The Carl Jung Essay.”
• Jonathan Bowden, “Hans-Jürgen Syberberg: Leni Riefenstahl’s Heir?.”
• Collin Cleary, “Asatru as a Living Tradition.”
• Collin Cleary, “An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga,” Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX, Part X, Part XI, Part XII
• Guillaume Durocher, “Brigitte Haman’s Hitler’s Vienna, Part 3: Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist.”
• Alex Graham, “Stanisław Wyspiański’s Wawel Plays.”
• Mark Gullick, “Leaving Father’s House: The Early Nietzsche.”
• Mark Gullick, “Raised Lutheran: The Life of Friedrich Nietzsche.”
• Robert Hampton, “Wagner for the Folkish.”
• Richard J. Herbert, “The Question of Race in Spengler & Its Meaning for Contemporary Racialism” (Spanish translation here)
• Gregory Hood, “Revolution from the Periphery: The Lessons of Nueva Germania.”
• Alexander Jacob, “The Metaphysics of Tragedy.“
• Nicholas R. Jeelvy, “Joe’s (Wagnerian) Garage.”
• Greg Johnson, “The Hero at 150: Remembering Richard Strauss.”
• Greg Johnson, Review of The Genius of Valhalla: The Life of Sir Reginald Goodall
• Greg Johnson, “Sir Reginald Goodall: An Apprecation.”
• James J. O’Meara, “Alexander Jacob Analyzes Wagner.”
• James J. O’Meara, “Our Wagner, Only Better: Harry Partch, Wild Boy of American Music,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• James J. O’Meara, “Review of The Grail: Two Studies.”
• James J. O’Meara, “The Bayreuth of Hobo Pythagoreanism: The University of Washington’s Harry Partch Festival.”

See also posts tagged Richard Wagner.

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