The philosopher's touch : Sartre, Nietzsche, and Barthes at the piano / François Noudelmann ; translated by Brian J. Reilly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noudelmann, François.

Contributor:

Reilly, Brian J.

Series:

European perspectives.

European perspectives : a series in social thought and cultural criticism

Standardized Title:

Toucher des philosophes. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980--Knowledge--Music.

Sartre, Jean-Paul.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900--Knowledge--Music.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Barthes, Roland--Knowledge--Music.

Barthes, Roland.

Music and philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Renowned philosopher and prominent French critic François Noudelmann engages the musicality of Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Roland Barthes, all of whom were amateur piano players and acute lovers of the medium. Though piano playing was a crucial art for these thinkers, their musings on the subject are largely scant, implicit, or discordant with each philosopher's oeuvre. Noudelmann both recovers and integrates these perspectives, showing that the manner in which these philosophers played, the composers they adored, and the music they chose reveals uncommon insight into their thinking styles and patterns.Noudelmann positions the physical and theoretical practice of music as a dimension underpinning and resonating with Sartre's, Nietzsche's, and Barthes's unique philosophical outlook. By reading their thought against their music, he introduces new critical formulations and reorients their trajectories, adding invaluable richness to these philosophers' lived and embodied experiences. The result heightens the multiple registers of being and the relationship between philosophy and the senses that informed so much of their work. A careful reader of music, Noudelmann maintains an elegant command of the texts under his gaze and appreciates the discursive points of musical and philosophical scholarship they involve, especially with regard to recent research and cutting-edge critique.

Contents:

Intuition

The off-beat piano

Why I am a great pianist

The piano touches me

Resonances.

Notes:

Copyright Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231527200

0231527209

OCLC:

818856416