

Schorske referred to as that composer’s “rootless world” and “cosmic amorphousness” for the more harmonically tethered Late Romanticism of Richard Wagner.


As a postgraduate, he specialised in the Second Viennese School of Arnold Schoenberg, but would eventually trade what the late cultural historian Carl E. We talk about all of this with Paul Mason, one of the most influential personalities of postcapitalism, taking advantage of his participation at the latest edition of Kosmopolis.īefore becoming a business journalist, Paul Mason lectured in music at Loughborough University. For the first time in many years, scenarios are re-emerging that until recently seemed utopian: the transition towards a society beyond capitalism, a post-work society based on automation and technological advances. Successive economic crises have led us to visualise the structural contradictions of the capitalist system.
