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  • Enlightenment Interrupted

    The Lost Moment of German Idealism and the Reactionary Present

    by Michael Steinberg ...
    For most of the eighteenth century the best minds in Europe took up the task of providing a foundation for human life and human society in which individual fulfillment was to be achieved within a rational public order. When it became apparent that this task was based on an illusion—the separation of self and world—and was thus doomed to failure, however, that insight and the consequent crisis were ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Concerto

    A Listener's Guide

    by Michael Steinberg ...
    Michael Steinberg's 1996 volume The Symphony: A Reader's Guide received glowing reviews across America. It was hailed as "wonderfully clear...recommended warmly to music lovers on all levels" (Washington Post), "informed and thoughtful" (Chicago Tribune), and "composed by a master stylist" (San Francisco Chronicle). Seiji Ozawa wrote that "his beautiful and effortless prose speaks from the heart." ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Choral Masterworks

    A Listener's Guide

    by Michael Steinberg ...
    Michael Steinberg's highly successful listener's guides--The Symphony and The Concerto--have been universally praised for their blend of captivating biography, crystal clear musical analysis, and delightful humor. Now Steinberg follows these two greatly admired volumes with Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide, the only such guide available to this most popular of musical forms. Here are more ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Searching for Home Waters

    A Brook Trout Pilgrimage

    by Michael K. Steinberg ...
    The brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is an iconic species among fly anglers and cold-water conservationists in eastern North America. This fish registers as a powerful symbol for its beauty and its imagery in art and literature. Its presence also tells us a great deal about the health of the larger environment. When an angler has a brook trout in hand, there is confidence that the water is ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Stalking the Ghost Bird

    The Elusive Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in Louisiana

    by Michael K. Steinberg ...
    When a kayaker thought he spotted an ivory-billed woodpecker in 2004, the birding community took notice. Two birders traveled to the bayou where the sighting occurred, well aware that the last confirmed sighting of an ivory-bill had taken place over sixty years ago. Both men caught a glimpse of the bird, and a team began to search the surrounding swamplands. Even after long hours of surveillance ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • For the Love of Music

    Invitations to Listening

    by Michael Steinberg, Larry Rothe ...
    The power of music, the way it works on the mind and heart, remains an enticing mystery. Now two noted writers on classical music, Michael Steinberg and Larry Rothe, explore the allure of this melodious art--not in the clinical terms of social scientists--but through stories drawn from their own experience. In For the Love of Music, Steinberg and Rothe draw on a lifetime of listening to, living ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • A New Biology of Religion

    Spiritual Practice and the Life of the Body

    by Michael Steinberg ...
    This study provides a fresh look at the debate between science and religion that documents how the experiences produced by spiritual practice are surprisingly consistent with the findings of modern biology, despite the difficulty in reconciling scientific theories and religious dogma.This book is unique in its focus on bodily experience as an independent source of knowledge and insight, an ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • The Afterlife of Moses

    Exile, Democracy, Renewal

    by Michael Steinberg ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    In this elegant and personal new work, Michael P. Steinberg reflects on the story of Moses and the Exodus as a foundational myth of politics—of the formation not of a nation but of a political community grounded in universal law.Modern renderings of the story of Moses, from Michelangelo to Spinoza to Freud to Schoenberg to Derrida, have seized on the story's ambivalences, its critical and self ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Listening to Reason

    Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music

    by Michael P. Steinberg ...
    This pathbreaking work reveals the pivotal role of music--musical works and musical culture--in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the "long nineteenth century." Michael Steinberg argues that, from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, music not only reflected but also embodied modern subjectivity as it increasingly engaged and criticized old regimes of ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Trouble with Wagner

    by Michael P. Steinberg ...
    In this unique and hybrid book, cultural and music historian Michael P. Steinberg combines a close analysis of Wagnerian music drama with a personal account of his work as a dramaturg on the bicentennial production of The Ring of the Nibelung for the Teatro alla Scala Milan and the Berlin State Opera . Steinberg shows how Wagner uses the power of a modern mythology to heighten music's claims to ... Read more

    Was $23.99 CAD Now $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Still Pitching

    by Michael Steinberg ...
    Still Pitching is the coming-of-age story of growing up in New York in the ’50s revolving around Steinberg’s passion for baseball. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • For the Love of Music

    Invitations to Listening

    by Michael Steinberg, Larry Rothe ...
    The power of music, the way it works on the mind and heart, remains an enticing mystery. Now two noted writers on classical music, Michael Steinberg and Larry Rothe, explore the allure of this melodious art--not in the clinical terms of social scientists--but through stories drawn from their own experience. In For the Love of Music, Steinberg and Rothe draw on a lifetime of listening to, living ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD