Sound figures of modernity : German music and philosophy / edited by Jost Hermand and Gerhard Richter.

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2006], ©2006.

vii, 267 pages ; 24 cm

German music and philosophy : an introduction / Jost Hermand and Gerhard Richter -- Doppelbewegung : the philosophical movement of music and the musical movement of philosophy / Lydia Goehr -- Brazen wheels : F. W. J. Schelling on the origin of music and tragedy / David Farrell Krell -- The world as will and music : Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of music / Ludger Lütkehaus -- The ring as deconstruction of modernity : reading Wagner with Benjamin / Samuel Weber -- Nietzsche and the problem of life-affirming content in music / Margaret Moore and Rebekah Pryor Paré -- Bloch's dream, music's traces / Gerhard Richter -- Dissonance and aesthetic totality : Adorno reads Schönberg / Beatrice Hanssen -- Thomas Mann : pro and contra Adorno / Hans Rudolf Vaget -- The dialectical thinker as composer : Hanns Eisler's philosophical reflections on music / Albrecht Betz -- Double mimesis : Georg Lukács's philosophy of music / Jost Hermand.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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