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Kiene Brillenburg Wurth Musically Sublime (Paperback)
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- Publication Name
- Musically Sublime
- Title
- Musically Sublime
- Subtitle
- Indeterminacy, Infinity, Irresolvability
- ISBN-10
- 0823230643
- EAN
- 9780823230648
- ISBN
- 9780823230648
- Release Date
- 03/14/2012
- Release Year
- 2012
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Book Title
- Musically Sublime : Indeterminacy, Infinity, Irresolvability
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Music, Philosophy
- Topic
- Philosophy & Social Aspects, Genres & Styles / Classical, Aesthetics, Semiotics & Theory
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 12.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 234 Pages
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Musically Sublime rewrites musically the history and philosophy of the sublime. Music enables us to reconsider the traditional course of sublime feeling on a track from pain to pleasure. Resisting the notion that there is a single format for sublime feeling, Wurth shows how, from the mid eighteenth century onward, sublime feeling is, instead, constantly rearticulated in a complex interaction with musicality. Wurth takes as her point of departure Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment and Jean-François Lyotard's aesthetic writings of the 1980s and 1990s. Kant framed the sublime narratively as an epic of self-transcendence. By contrast, Lyotard sought to substitute open immanence for Kantian transcendence, yet he failed to deconstruct the Kantian epic. The book performs this deconstruction by juxtaposing eighteenth- and nineteenth-century conceptions of the infinite, Sehnsucht, the divided self, and unconscious drives with contemporary readings of instrumental music. Critically assessing Edmund Burke, James Usher, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Novalis, Friedrich Hölderlin, Arthur Schopenhauer, Richard Wagner, and Friedrich Nietzsche, this book re-presents the sublime as a feeling that defers resolution and hangs suspended between pain and pleasure. Musically Sublime rewrites the mathematical sublime as différance, while it redresses the dynamical sublime as trauma: unending, undetermined, unresolved. Whereas most musicological studies in this area have focused on traces of the Kantian sublime in Handel, Haydn, and Beethoven, this book calls on the nineteenth-century theorist Arthur Seidl to analyze the sublime of, rather than in, music. It does so by invoking Seidl's concept of formwidrigkeit ("form-contrariness") in juxtaposition with Romantic piano music, (post)modernist musical minimalisms, and Lyotard's postmodern sublime. It presents a sublime of matter, rather than form-performative rather than representational. In doing so, Musically Sublime shows that the binary distinction Lyotard posits between the postmodern and romantic sublime is finally untenable.
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Fordham University Press
ISBN-10
0823230643
ISBN-13
9780823230648
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109020161
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Book Title
Musically Sublime : Indeterminacy, Infinity, Irresolvability
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Philosophy & Social Aspects, Genres & Styles / Classical, Aesthetics, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Literary Criticism, Music, Philosophy
Number of Pages
234 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
12.2 Oz
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An excellent textbook on the complex history of the philosophical sublime and an innovative rethinking of musical aesthetics. -----Peter Szendy, University of Paris X, Nanterre, "An excellent textbook on the complex history of the philosophical sublime and an innovative rethinking of musical aesthetics." --Peter Szendy, University of Paris X, Nanterre, Juxtaposes analysis of instrumental music against 18th-and 19th-century ideas of the infinite, the divided self, and unconscious drives.Contemporary philosophy is badly in need of a new philosophical vocabulary enabling it to shed new light on old problems. This book proves clear that no notion will be more successful here than that of the sublime. And that the sublime is best exemplified by the experience of music. Kiene Brillenburg Wurth wrote a superior book on a fascinating theme. Her book will be landmark in contemporary philosophy.-Frank Ankersmit"Wurth does better than merely document the history of the sublime in music. By engaging with the term in its various incarnations, she offers the reader a full sense of the complexities of the term, the scope of various theories, and finally, offers a strong theory of the postmodern sublime."-Music Research Forum, Wurth does better than merely document the history of the sublime in music. By engaging with the term in its various incarnations, she offers the reader a full sense of the complexities of the term, the scope of various theories, and finally, offers a strong theory of the postmodern sublime. -----Benjamin Downs, Music Research Forum, Analyzing critical and philosophical writing from the mid-eighteenth century on, Wurth moves from Burke through Kant and Schopenhauer to Lyotard to posit a complex, multifaceted notion of the sublime, citing music as its crucial source. -----Annette Richards, Cornell University, Contemporary philosophy is badly in need of a new philosophical vocabulary enabling it to shed new light on old problems. This book proves clear that no notion will be more successful here than that of the sublime. And that the sublime is best exemplified by the experience of music. Kiene Brillenburg Wurth wrote a superior book on a fascinating theme. Her book will be landmark in contemporary philosophy. -----Frank Ankersmit, University of Groningen
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2012
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