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Deep refrains : music, philosophy, and the ineffable /

We often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself. But if music, in all its sensuous flux, does not mean anything in particular, might it still have a special kind of philosophical significance? In Deep Refrains, Michael Gallope draws together the writings of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gallope, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Prelude: a paradox of the ineffable. Schopenhauer's deep copy ; The platonic solutions ; Four dialectical responses (after Nietzsche)
  • Bloch's tone. The tone ; The natural klang ; The expressive tone ; Bloch's magic rattle ; The tone's inner ineffability ; The event-forms ; A dialectical account of music history ; Utopian musical speech
  • Adorno's musical fracture. Adorno's tone ; Adorno's conception of history ; The tendenz des materials ; Music's language-like ineffability ; The immanent critique ; The paradox of Mahler's vernacular ; The curve of inconsistency
  • Interlude: Wittgenstein's silence
  • Jankelevitch's inconsistency. Bergson and the inconsistency of time ; The aporetic source of fidelity ; Charm ; Cosmic silence ; Unwoven dialectics
  • Deleuze and Guattari's rhythm. Deleuze's rhythm ; The rhythm of sense ; A structuralist quadrivium ; The rhythm of life ; Sonorous co-extensions
  • Conclusion: a paradox of the vernacular.