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Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language

By Hamilton , John T

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN
9780231512541, 9780231142205, 9780231142212, 0231142218, 0231512546
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
16 MB (16836296 bytes)
Series
Columbia Themes in Philosophy Social Criticism and the Arts
Pages
273 p\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

In the romantic tradition, music is consistently associated with madness, either as cause or cure. Writers as diverse as Kleist, Hoffmann, and Nietzsche articulated this theme, which in fact reaches back to classical antiquity and continues to resonate in the modern imagination. What John Hamilton investigates in this study is the way literary, philosophical, and psychological treatments of music and madness challenge the limits of representation and thereby create a crisis of language. Special focus is given to the decidedly autobiographical impulse of the late eighteenth and early ni... A Note on Translations and Abbreviations Hors d'ouvre I Introduction: The Subject of Music and Madness 1. Hearing Voices 2. Unequal Song 3. Resounding Sense 4. The Most Violent of the Arts 6. Before and After Language: Hoffmann Hors d'ouvre II Notes Bibliography Index

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