Sound Figures of Modernity
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Sound Figures of Modernity

German Music and Philosophy

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Sound Figures of Modernity

German Music and Philosophy

About this book

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 LukĂĄcs 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 the other.

Contributors: Albrecht Betz, Lydia Goehr, Beatrice Hanssen, Jost Hermand, David Farrell Krell, Ludger LĂŒtkehaus, Margaret Moore, Rebekah Pryor ParĂ©, Gerhard Richter, Hans Rudolf Vaget, Samuel Weber

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. 1. German Music and Philosophy: An Introduction
  4. 2. Doppelbewegung: The Musical Movement of Philosophy and the Philosophical Movement of Music
  5. 3. Brazen Wheels: F. W. J. Schelling on the Origins of Music and Tragedy
  6. 4. The Will as World and Music: Arthur Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of Music
  7. 5. The Ring as Deconstruction of Modernity: Reading Wagner with Benjamin
  8. 6. “Not Mere Music”: Nietzsche and the Problem of Moral Content in Music
  9. 7. Bloch’s Dream, Music’s Traces
  10. 8. Dissonance and Aesthetic Totality: Adorno Reads Schönberg
  11. 9. Thomas Mann: Pro and Contra Adorno
  12. 10. The Composer as Dialectical Thinker: Hanns Eisler’s Philosophical Reflections on Music
  13. 11. Double Mimesis: Georg Lukács’s Philosophy of Music
  14. Contributors
  15. Index