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COPYRIGHT 2002 Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc.
by Bryan Magee Metropolitan Books, 397 pp. $24.50
In an essay published this past January in The New Republic, historian Daniel Jonah Goldhagen expresses astonishment that anti-Semitism continues to be "minimized" and "cordoned off" in discussions of "subjects to which it is centrally relevant." Alas -- for it is a book with many strengths, dealing with an inherently fascinating topic -- Bryan Magee's The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy is a painful example of this tendency. Magee, a distinguished scholar and broadcaster, author...
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