Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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