The Power of Music against Death: Review of the Book by M. Dolar and S. Žižek "Opera's Second Death". Petropavlovsk: Zapasnoi aehrodrom, 2024. 372 p.

Authors

  • Zhiyan Che Changchun Pedagogical Higher Special College
  • Hao Xie Jiangsu Province Theatre Arts Corporation

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52575/2712-746X-2025-50-3-679-682

Keywords:

culture, music, opera, power, tradition, psychoanalysis

Abstract

In the book by Mladen Dolar and Slavoj Žižek, opera art becomes the object of philosophical analysis. The leading representatives of the Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis involve opera into a range of central issues of modern culture and society, including attitudes to the Other, communication with power, love, and death. An important concept of the power of music as a factor that defines opera is introduced and substantiated. At the time of Modernism, the power of opera appeared to be the driving principle of addressing a significant Other through music, while today it is perceived as a way to intensify life experiences

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Author Biographies

Zhiyan Che, Changchun Pedagogical Higher Special College

Lecturer, Changchun, China
E-mail: 693344192@qq.com

Hao Xie, Jiangsu Province Theatre Arts Corporation

Lecturer, Nanjing, China.
E-mail: 625504809@qq.com

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Published

2025-09-30

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Che, Z., & Xie, H. (2025). The Power of Music against Death: Review of the Book by M. Dolar and S. Žižek "Opera’s Second Death". Petropavlovsk: Zapasnoi aehrodrom, 2024. 372 p. NOMOTHETIKA: Philosophy. Sociology. Law, 50(3), 679-682. https://doi.org/10.52575/2712-746X-2025-50-3-679-682

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