Deep Refrains : Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable / Michael Gallope.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gallope, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bloch, Ernest, 1880-1959--Criticism and interpretation.

Bloch, Ernest.

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969--Criticism and interpretation.

Adorno, Theodor W.

Jankélévitch, Vladimir--Criticism and interpretation.

Jankélévitch, Vladimir.

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995--Criticism and interpretation.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Guattari, Félix, 1930-1992--Criticism and interpretation.

Guattari, Félix.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

We often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself. But if music, in all its sensuous flux, does not mean anything in particular, might it still have a special kind of philosophical significance? In Deep Refrains, Michael Gallope draws together the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari in order to revisit the age-old question of music's ineffability from a modern perspective. For these nineteenth- and twentieth-century European philosophers, music's ineffability is a complex phenomenon that engenders an intellectually productive sense of perplexity. Through careful examination of their historical contexts and philosophical orientations, close attention to their use of language, and new interpretations of musical compositions that proved influential for their work, Deep Refrains forges the first panoptic view of their writings on music. Gallope concludes that music's ineffability is neither a conservative phenomenon nor a pious call to silence. Instead, these philosophers ask us to think through the ways in which music's stunning force might address, in an ethical fashion, intricate philosophical questions specific to the modern world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Musical Examples

Figures

Introduction

Prelude. A Paradox of the Ineffable

Interlude. Wittgenstein's Silence

Conclusion: A Paradox of the Vernacular

Acknowledgments

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780226483726

022648372X

OCLC:

1011497375