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Sound
Figures of Modernity
German Music and Philosophy
Edited by Jost Hermand and Gerhard Richter
"The complex relations discussed here between German
music and philosophy are fascinating, not only to Wagnerites
and specialists in German cultural studies, but to anyone interested
in the presence of German art and ideas in the United States
for the past one hundred years."–James Rolleston,
Duke University
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 the other.
"With essays from a multiplicity of voices and perspectives,
this book is a wonderful contribution to the study of music,
philosophy, and German culture."–Liliane Weissberg,
University of Pennsylvania
Contributors:
Albrecht Betz, Lydia Goehr, Beatrice Hanssen, Jost Hermand, David
Farrell Krell, Ludger Lütkehaus, Margaret Moore, Rebekah
Pryor Paré, Gerhard Richter, Hans Rudolf Vaget, and Samuel
Weber
Jost Hermand
is William F. Vilas Professor Emeritus of German at the University
of Wisconsin–Madison. Gerhard Richter is associate
professor of German at the University of California, Davis.
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English edition and translation by Louise McClelland Urban; Foreword
by Martin Katz
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November 2006
LC: 2006008595 ML
296 pp. 6 x 9
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