Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-10

3. Melancholy Science as Dissonant System

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   Pages 11-45

4. Twisting Free With/Of Wagner

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   Pages 46-81

5. The Dialectical Image of Music

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6. Invincible in the Wasteland? Music, Space and Utopia

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7. The Expression of Waiting in Vain

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8. Back Matter

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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.

• Philosophy
• Continental philosophy
• critical theory
• Frankfurt School
• aesthetics
• phenomenology
• music
• contemporary music
• contemporary art
• cultural theory
• cultural studies
• Marxism
• Marxist theory
• historical materialism
• German idealism
• German philosophy
• Adorno
• Benjamin
• Hegel
• Heidegger

• Independent Scholar, UK

  Wesley Phillips

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.

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