Music, Philosophy, and Modernity |
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| Author:
| Bowie, Andrew |
| Series title: | Modern European Philosophy Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-10782-2 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2009 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $66.95 |
Book Description:
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This book looks at key philosophical responses to music from Kant, the German Romantics and Wagner, to Wittgenstein and Adorno. It uses music to question many ideas about language, meaning and philosophy, and thereby proposes an alternative account of philosophy's relationship to modernity.
This book looks at key philosophical responses to music from Kant, the German Romantics and Wagner, to Wittgenstein and Adorno. It uses music to question many ideas about language, meaning and philosophy, and thereby proposes an alternative account of philosophy's relationship to modernity.