Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger

by Wesley Phillips

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137487247
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/08/2015
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	215
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

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.

Table 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