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An analysis of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde within the context of his encounter with... more An analysis of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde within the context of his encounter with Arthur Schopenhauer's writings. Wagner's pervasive use of harmonic suspension in the opera and its dramatic narrative structure were reactions to his study of Schopenhauer's metaphysics but show an as-yet immature grasp of Schopenhauerian ethics, especially in comparison to his later works.
Understanding of another person predominantly informed by observation is more complete and dynami... more Understanding of another person predominantly informed by observation is more complete and dynamic than understanding available to an audience for whom they are curating their self- presentation. Interpersonal encounters conducted via digital media platforms lack the physical proximity that lets us observe other persons’ accidental self-disclosure in real-life encounters, as distinct from being the audience of their explicit self-disclosure. However, in online interpersonal interactions we can still place others in the role of observer by allowing them to watch our interactions with external texts, without focusing on those others as audience or on the text as demonstratively referential to oneself.
An analysis of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde within the context of his encounter with... more An analysis of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde within the context of his encounter with Arthur Schopenhauer's writings. Wagner's pervasive use of harmonic suspension in the opera and its dramatic narrative structure were reactions to his study of Schopenhauer's metaphysics but show an as-yet immature grasp of Schopenhauerian ethics, especially in comparison to his later works.
Understanding of another person predominantly informed by observation is more complete and dynami... more Understanding of another person predominantly informed by observation is more complete and dynamic than understanding available to an audience for whom they are curating their self- presentation. Interpersonal encounters conducted via digital media platforms lack the physical proximity that lets us observe other persons’ accidental self-disclosure in real-life encounters, as distinct from being the audience of their explicit self-disclosure. However, in online interpersonal interactions we can still place others in the role of observer by allowing them to watch our interactions with external texts, without focusing on those others as audience or on the text as demonstratively referential to oneself.