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