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Philosophy of New Music (Hardcover)
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Philosophy of New Music (Hardcover)
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In 1947 Theodor Adorno, one of the seminal European philosophers of
the postwar years, announced his return after exile in the United
States to a devastated Europe by writing Philosophy of New Music.
Intensely polemical from its first publication, every aspect of
this work was met with extreme reactions, from stark dismissal to
outrage. Even Schoenberg reviled it. Despite the controversy,
Philosophy of New Music became highly regarded and widely read
among musicians, scholars, and social philosophers. Marking a major
turning point in his musicological philosophy, Adorno located a
critique of musical reproduction as internal to composition itself,
rather than as a matter of the reproduction of musical performance.
Consisting of two distinct essays, "Schoenberg and Progress" and
"Stravinsky and Reaction," this work poses the musical extremes in
which Adorno perceived the struggle for the cultural future of
Europe: between human emancipation and barbarism, between the
compositional techniques and achievements of Schoenberg and
Stravinsky. In this completely new translation--presented along
with an extensive introduction by distinguished translator Robert
Hullot-Kentor--Philosophy of New Music emerges as an indispensable
key to the whole of Adorno's illustrious and influential oeuvre.
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) was the leading figure of the
Frankfurt school of critical theory. He authored more than twenty
volumes, including Negative Dialectics (1982), Philosophy of Modern
Music (1980), Kierkegaard (Minnesota, 1989), Dialectic of
Enlightenment (1975) with Max Horkheimer, and Aesthetic Theory
(Minnesota, 1997). Robert Hullot-Kentor has taught at Harvard and
Stanford universities andwritten widely on Adorno. He has
translated various works of Adorno, including Aesthetic Theory.
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