"In Wagner's “Tristan,” the drama of unhappy consciousness is revived in a theme already presented by Hölderlin and Novalis: the contrast between the separating clarity of the day and the primal unity of the night. Day is the world of reality in which the laws of loyalty and honor that govern civil life apply, and in which Tristan is the hero, the loyal warrior of King Marke. But the life of the day is nothing but an illusion in the face of the cosmic unity that binds souls to itself in their deepest absence and, once the illusory bonds are broken, submerges them in the universal breath of unconscious will. (p. 195)"
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Enzo Paci
1911 – 1976
q:it:Enzo Paci (1911 - 1976) was an Italian philosopher.
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