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1 online resource (225 pages .) |
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Studien zur österreichischen Philosophie ; Band XLV
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Studien zur österreichischen Philosophie ; Bd. 45.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Musicians; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter I.A Life in Music; 1. An Appetite for Music; 2. Music''s Place: Biography or Philosophy?; 3. Young Wittgenstein Listens to Music; 4. Later Listening; Chapter II. Early Views: Wittgenstein''s Vienna Revisited; 1. Eduard Hanslick and a Tradition in Music; 2. Was the Early Wittgenstein a Musical Formalist?Affinities to Hanslick; 3. Whistling the Inexpressible: Wittgenstein, Hanslickand Schopenhauer; Chapter III. Wittgenstein in Transit: A Critique of the Tradition. |
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1. Is Beauty All It''s Cracked Up to Be?2. Do Works of Art Have an Essence?; 3. ""As If from a Great Distance"": Uncovering anAesthetic Attitude?; 4. Appreciating Music Naturally; Chapter IV. Later Views: A New Era; 1. Was the Later Wittgenstein a Musical Formalist?A Shift in Perspective; 2. Wittgenstein and Hanslick: A Kinship withExpressive Difference; 3. Irony in Music and Language: Face, Gesture, Tone; Chapter V. Wittgenstein and the Composers; 1. Not Only Science But Art Also Teaches; 2. Wittgenstein''s Reception of Wagner. |
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3. Wagner As Hearing Aid? Wittgenstein''s Remarks on Mendelssohn and Mahler4. A Different Reading: Wittgenstein''s Self-Understanding As Music Critic; 5. Why Was Wagner Absent from the Silents?; Chapter VI. Breakdown of Tradition; 1. Composing Music and Doing Philosophy ina Time of Decline; 2. The Brothers Wittgenstein and the MusicalJourney of the West; 3. Musical Experiments: Wittgenstein, Cageand Family Resemblance; 4. Deterioration or Sea Change in the Cultureof the West?; Chapter VII. Philosophy, Music and Therapy; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
This book provides the first in-depth exploration of the importance of music for Ludwig Wittgenstein's life and work. Wittgenstein's remarks on music are essential for understanding his philosophy: they are on the nature of musical understanding, the relation of music to language, the concepts of representation and expression, on melody, irony and aspect-perception, and, on the great composers belonging to the Austrian-German tradition. Biography and philosophy, this work suggests that Wittgenstein was a composer of philosophy who used the musical form as a blueprint for his own writing and th. |
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951 -- Aesthetics.
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. |
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Aesthetics. |
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951 -- Knowledge and learning -- Music.
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Music. |
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Music and philosophy.
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Music and philosophy. |
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Electronic books.
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Music.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9789401210997 |
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Print version: (GyWOH)har145011428 |
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Print version: 9789042038578 9042038578 |
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9401210993 (electronic book) |
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9789401210997 (electronic book) |
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9789042038578 (paperback) |
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9042038578 (paperback) |
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