The Tenderness of Silent Minds

The human body is the primary instrument of war, yet those waging war often confront soldiers' bodies in a detached or merely intellectual way. In The Tenderness of Silent Minds, Martha C. Nussbaum, a leading thinker on emotion, morality, and justice, conducts a pioneering study of Benjamin Britten's musical representations of the tender male body amidst the brutality of war, and their ability to transform consciousness by evoking potent, non-personal emotions.

Autorentext
Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. A leading scholar of emotion and morality, she is the author of The Fragility of Goodness, Creating Capabilities, and Justice for Animals, among others, and has published hundreds of articles of monumental impact on the development of philospohy in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Inhalt

• CONTENTS

• Part I. Music, Bodies, Vulnerability, War

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Britten and Coventry

• Chapter 2. Music as Representation of Bodily Striving and Failure

• Chapter 3. Britten, Auden, and the Spirit of War: Persecuting Bodies

• Chapter 4. Britten and Pears: the Beauty and Nobility of Human Love

• Chapter 5. Pacifisms and the Music of Peace

• Chapter 6. Reconciliation: Aldeburgh, Wolfenden, Coventry

• Part II. War Requiem

• Conclusion. The Way Forward