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Richard Wagner and the Trajectory of German Transcendental Philosophy

In his theoretical works, Wagner constructs an opposition between the idealism and Germanness, and realism, which he equates with Jewishness. Some elements of this opposition can be found also in Immanuel Kant, G. W. F. Hegel, Ludwig Feuerbach and Arthur Schopenhauer. Despite continuities, there are also discontinuities between Wagner's, Kant's and Hegel's perception of Jews. Even though Kant and Hegel provided a rather prejudicial account of Jewishness (in which Jews embody materialism and therefore heteronomy), they do not perceive Jews as a threat. Wagner saw Jews as a threat. Nevertheless, he easily found support for his paranoid fear in Kant's,...