Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-273) and index.
Contents
Preparing the ground -- Early influences and movements -- Dialectic, negation and binary oppositions -- Boulez, Adorno and serial critique -- Deduction and the scientific model -- Serialism and structuralism -- Post-structuralist encounters -- Boulez, difference and repetition -- Expanding the virtual -- Continuity and discontinuity of space and time.