Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger

Informationen zum Autor Wesley Phillips is an independent researcher and teacher based in London. He has written about German idealism, the Frankfurt School, phenomenology and aesthetics, and has had recent articles published in Telos, The European Journal of Social Theory, Critical Horizons, Cosmos and History and twentieth-century music. Klappentext Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger explains how two notoriously opposed German philosophers share a rethinking of the possibility of metaphysics via notions of music and waiting. This is connected to the historical materialist project of social change by way of the radical Italian composer Luigi Nono. Zusammenfassung Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger explains how two notoriously opposed German philosophers share a rethinking of the possibility of metaphysics via notions of music and waiting. This is connected to the historical materialist project of social change by way of the radical Italian composer Luigi Nono. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Melancholy Science as Dissonant System 2. Twisting Free With/Of Wagner 3. The Dialectical Image of Music 4. Invincible in the Wasteland? Music, Space and Utopia 5. The Expression of Waiting in Vain Notes Index of Names Bibliography

List of contents

Introduction
1. Melancholy Science as Dissonant System
2. Twisting Free With/Of Wagner
3. The Dialectical Image of Music
4. Invincible in the Wasteland? Music, Space and Utopia
5. The Expression of Waiting in Vain
Notes
Index of Names
Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Wesley Phillips
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.07.2015
• EAN: 9781137487247
• ISBN: 978-1-137-48724-7
• No. of pages: 225
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; B, Aesthetics, Philosophy, Critical Theory, History of Philosophy, Philosophy: aesthetics, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Metaphysics, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Philosophy of the Self, Existentialism