In Search of Wagner keyword romance Feminist International draws on the Feminist International draws on the author’s rich experience with radical movements to enter into ongoing debates in feminist and Marxist theory: from social reproduction and domestic work to the intertwining of financial and gender violence From the ancient world of Croesus to the wealthy dynasties of Renaissance Italy Adorno sheds light on a nineteenth century bourgeois figure whose operas betray the social gestures and high culture fantasies that helped plant the seeds of the modern Culture Industry A foreword by Slavoj Žižek situates Adorno’s reflections within present debates over Wagner’s anti Semitism and the moral status of his work