An unnatural attitude : phenomenology in Weimar musical thought / Benjamin Steege.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Steege, Benjamin, author.

Series:

• New material histories of music.
• Chicago scholarship online.
• New material histories of music
• Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Phenomenology and music.
• Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
• Philosophy, German--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Summary:

'An Unnatural Attitude' traces a style of musical thought that coalesced in the intellectual milieu of the Weimar Republic - a phenomenological style that sought to renew contact with music as a worldly circumstance. Deeply critical of the influence of naturalism in aesthetics and ethics, proponents of this new style argued for the description of music as something accessible neither through introspection nor through experimental research, but rather in an attitude of outward, open orientation toward the world. With this approach, music acquires meaning in particular when the act of listening is understood to be shared with others.

Contents:

• Intro
• Contents
• List of Examples
• Introduction. Worldhood and World War
• Max Scheler, "Genius of War"
• Musicology in the World
• From Psychology to Phenomenology
• Music in Phenomenological Study
• Chapter 1. The Unnatural Attitude
• The Acoustical Attitude and the Harmonic Attitude
• Beyond Psychologism
• "What Is the Phenomenology of Music?"
• Chapter 2. Debussy, Outward and Open
• An Outward Turn
• Dehumanization
• Being-There-With Music
• Letting Oneself Go
• Actuality
• Chapter 3. Hearing-With
• Case One. Aesthetic Hearing (Seventeenth-Century Suite)
• Joining In
• Vocal Hearing and Instrumental Hearing
• Case Two. Participatory Hearing (Thirteenth-Century Motet)
• Factical Life
• Spacing
• The Limits of Community
• Chapter 4. Techniques of Feeling
• This Is Not a Test
• Techniques of Feeling
• A Call
• Appendix A. Hans Mersmann, "On the Phenomenology of Music" (1925)
• Appendix B. Helmuth Plessner, "Response" [to Mersmann] (1925)
• Appendix C. Paul Bekker, "What Is the Phenomenology of Music?" (1925)
• Appendix D. Herbert Eimert, "On the Phenomenology of Music" (1926)
• Appendix E. Günther Stern-Anders, "On the Phenomenology of Listening (Elucidated through the Hearing of Impressionist Music)" (1927)
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.

Notes:

• Also issued in print: 2021.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 7, 2021).

ISBN:

• 9780226763033
• 022676303X

OCLC:

1245419607