Finding an Ending - Kitcher, Philip (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University) a Schacht, Richard (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner's four-part "Ring of the Nibelung". This work looks at this greatest of Wagner's achievements, focusing on its far-reaching and subtle exploration of problems of meanings and endings in this life and world.