Quasi Una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music (Verso Classics) - Softcover
Quasi una Fantasia contains Adorno's own selection from his essays and journalism over more than three decades. In its analytical profundity it can be compared to his Philosophy of Modern Music, but in the range of its topics and the clarity of its arguments it stands alone among Adorno's writings on music. At the book's core are illuminating studies of the founders of modern music: Mahler, Schoenberg and Berg, and an important "dialectical portrait" of Stravinsky. More unexpectedly, there are moving accounts of earlier works, including Bizet's Carmen, along with an entertainingly caustic "Natural History of the Theatre". Musical Kitsch is the target of several shorter pieces. Yet even while Adorno demolishes "commodity music" he is sustained by the conviction that music is supremely human because it retains the capacity to speak of inhumanity and to resist it. It is a conviction which reverberates throughout these remarkable writings.
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"This is an extraordinary book ... one of Adorno's most impressive, fecund and elegant works. Readers who may feel intimidated by Adorno's reputation for obscurity should find this book (with its superbly assured and unobtrusive translation by Rodney Livingstone) a welcome surprise ... It will appeal to anyone who wishes to encounter one of the century's most challenging and provocative social theorists at his most openly enthusiastic."--Graham McCann, "Times Higher Education Supplement"
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Theodor Adorno was director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt from 1956 until his death in 1969. His works include "In Search of Wagner"; "Aesthetic Theory"; "Negative Dialectics"; and (with Max Horkheimer) "Dialectic of Enlightenment" and "Towards a New Manifesto."
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- PublisherVerso Books
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0860916138
- ISBN 13 9780860916130
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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