A review by piccoline
Five Lessons on Wagner by Alain Badiou

4.0

I loved this. I don't know Wagner well enough (at all) to say whether I agree with it all, but it's fascinating. I love reading a deep thinker writing about a complicated body of artistic work as if it really matters. It helps to make it matter, and I think that's a good thing for all of us.

The Zizek afterword was fun, too, if you're into Zizek. It would have been fun to see him engage a bit more directly with what Badiou was putting forward, but you know Zizek. He's got his thing.