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Theodor Adorno Quasi Una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music (Radical Thinkers)

By Theodor Adorno

Book information

Publisher
Verso Books
Year
2012
ISBN
1844677923, 9781844677924
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (16231535 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
348\356
Time added
2023-05-27 18:22:14

Description

This collection covers a wide range of topics, from a moving study of Bizet’s Carmen to an entertainingly caustic exploration of the hierarchies of the auditorium. Especially significant is Adorno’s “dialectical portrait” of Stravinsky, in which Adorno both reconsiders and refines his damning indictment of the composer in Philosophy on Modern Music. Throughout, Adorno is sustained by the conviction that music is supremely human because it is capable of communicating inhumanity while resisting it. His belief in the benevolent and transformative power of music reverberates throughout these writings.

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