Sound of Ontology - Music As a Model for Metaphysics

This book provides a unique approach to some of philosophy's fundamental issues. It points to music as a model for exploring such questions as, "What does it mean to value?" This is not a musical study, per se, but a philosophical text that uses music as a vehicle for investigating these and other metaphysical, axiological, and aesthetic matters.

List of contents

Prelude
Chapter I: Wagner in the Role of Kant
Chapter II: Schoenberg's Fatal Step
Chapter III: Interlude: Sic Et Non
Chapter IV: It's Only Sound: Or, How Nietzsche Foresaw John Cage
Chapter V: Serialism as Event? Or Simulacrum?
Chapter VI: Hearing Tonality Anew (Or Not)
Chapter VII: Blooming, Buzzing Cohesion
Chapter VIII: The Undeniable Subject
Chapter IX: Locating the Thing-In-Itself
Chapter X: The Copernican Revolution (Or Not)
Chapter XI: Intentionality as Value
Chapter XII: The Return of the Thing-In-Itself
Chapter XIII: Finite, Definite, Infinite
Chapter XIV: An Infinite Multiplicity of Hierarchies
Chapter XV: The Razor's Edge of Ontology
Appendix: IV, the Phantom Tonic
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Kenneth LaFave earned his PhD in philosophy at The European Graduate School.

Summary

This book provides a unique approach to some of philosophy’s fundamental issues. It points to music as a model for exploring such questions as, “What does it mean to value?” This is not a musical study, per se, but a philosophical text that uses music as a vehicle for investigating these and other metaphysical, axiological, and aesthetic matters.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth LaFave, LaFave Kenneth
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781498551861
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5186-1
• No. of pages: 140
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Philosophy: aesthetics, Theory of music & musicology, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Theory of music and musicology