Sound figures of modernity : German music and philosophy / edited by Jost Hermand and Gerhard Richter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hermand, Jost.

Richter, Gerhard, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Germany--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Music and literature.

Germany.

Physical Description:

vii, 267 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2006]

Contents:

German music and philosophy : an introduction / Jost Hermand and Gerhard Richter

Doppelbewegung : the philosophical movement of music and the musical movement of philosophy / Lydia Goehr

Brazen wheels : F.W.J. Schelling on the origin of music and tragedy / David Farrell Krell

The world as will and music : Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of music / Ludger Lütkehaus

The ring as deconstruction of modernity : reading Wagner with Benjamin / Samuel Weber

Nietzsche and the problem of life-affirming content in music / Margaret Moore and Rebekah Pryor Paré

Bloch's dream, music's traces / Gerhard Richter

Dissonance and aesthetic totality : Adorno reads Schönberg / Beatrice Hanssen

Thomas Mann : pro and contra Adorno / Hans Rudolf Vaget

The dialectical thinker as composer : Hanns Eisler's philosophical reflections on music / Albrecht Betz

Double mimesis : Georg Lukács's philosophy of music / Jost Hermand.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0299219305

OCLC:

65165360

Publisher Number:

9780299219307