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Title: The void and the abyss
Review: In this unusual volume, the author, a professor of German atBrigham Young University, offers "a dual homage, on the one handto Theodore Ziolkowski and to my other teachers at Princeton, andon the other hand to my faculty colleagues and students at BrighamYoung, with whom I have been blessed to associate for nearly fortyyears" (p. 8).Ranging through such works as Mozart's Die Zauberflöte(The Magic Flute) and Beethoven's Fidelio, Wolfram von Eschenbach'smedieval poem and Richard Wagner's controversial operadealing with the Parzival legend, and the films of Wim Wenders,Keele reflects on themes of human deification, the need for a divineSavior, "our blissfully arduous path to Godhood best negotiated bya monad of man and woman blessed with eternal increase" (p. 7),"the temple as microcosmic heaven and blueprint for attaining thecelestial life" (p. 8), and the emptiness of an existence void of transcendentmeaning.
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