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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The rich conceptual and experiential relays between music and philosophy-echoes of what Theodor W. Adorno once called Klangfiguren, or "sound figures"-resonate with heightened intensity during the period of modernity that extends from early German Idealism to the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. This volume traces the political, historical, and philosophical trajectories of a specifically German tradition in which thinkers take recourse to music, both as an aesthetic practice and as the object of their speculative work.The contributors examine the texts of such highly influential writers and thinkers as Schelling, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bloch, Mann, Adorno, and Lukács in relation to individual composers including Beethoven, Wagner, Schönberg, and Eisler. Their explorations of the complexities that arise in conceptualizing music as a mode of representation and philosophy as a mode of aesthetic practice thematize the ways in which the fields of music and philosophy are altered when either attempts to express itself in terms defined by theother.Contributors: Albrecht Betz, Lydia Goehr, Beatrice Hanssen, Jost Hermand, David Farrell Krell, Ludger Lütkehaus, Margaret Moore, Rebekah Pryor Paré, Gerhard Richter, Hans Rudolf Vaget, Samuel Weber

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 Lutkehaus

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 Pare

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

Dissonance and aesthetic totality : Adorno reads Schonberg / 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 Lukacs's philosophy of music / Jost Hermand.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612270277

9781282270275

1282270273

9780299219338

029921933X

OCLC:

318240523

Publisher Number:

2027/heb08766 hdl