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  • Music's Making

    The Poetry of Music, the Music of Poetry

    par Michael Cherlin ...
    A personal voyage of discovery drawing on musicology, literary theory, Jewish studies, and philosophical phenomenology.As a work of musical theory, or meta-theory, Music's Making draws extensively on work done in philosophy and literary criticism in addition to the scholarship of musicologists and music theorists. Music's Making is divided into two large parts. The first half develops global ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Betrayal of the Humanities

    The University during the Third Reich

    par Bernard M. Levinson, Robert P. Ericksen, Alan E. Steinweis, Suzanne L. Marchand, Christopher J. Probst, Anders Gerdmar, Thomas Schneider, Johannes Renger, Bettina Arnold0, Oren Gross1, Michael Cherlin2, Emmanuel Faye3, Aniko Szabo4, Franklin Hugh Adler5, Alvin H. Rosenfeld6 ...
    Collections series Studies in Antisemitism
    How did the academy react to the rise, dominance, and ultimate fall of Germany's Third Reich? Did German professors of the humanities have to tell themselves lies about their regime's activities or its victims to sleep at night? Did they endorse the regime? Or did they look the other way, whether out of deliberate denial or out of fear for their own personal safety? The Betrayal of the Humanities: ... En savoir plus

    $42.99 CAD

  • Varieties of Musical Irony

    From Mozart to Mahler

    par Michael Cherlin ...
    Irony, one of the most basic, pervasive, and variegated of rhetorical tropes, is as fundamental to musical thought as it is to poetry, prose, and spoken language. In this wide-ranging study of musical irony, Michael Cherlin draws upon the rich history of irony as developed by rhetoricians, philosophers, literary scholars, poets, and novelists. With occasional reflections on film music and other ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Great Tradition and Its Legacy

    The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe

    Modifié par Michael Cherlin, Halina Filipowicz, Richard L. Rudolph ...
    Collections Livre 4 - Austrian and Habsburg Studies
    Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has made Austria - especially Vienna - and the old Habsburg lands synonymous with high culture in Central Europe. Many works, often controversial originally but now considered as classics, are still performed regularly in Vienna, Prague, Budapest, or Krakow. This volume not only offers an excellent overview of the theatrical history ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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  • Lies and Epiphanies

    Composers and Their Inspiration from Wagner to Berg

    par Chris Walton ...
    Lies and Epiphanies offers case studies of "inspiration" in five composers -- Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Richard Strauss, and Alban Berg. Their own tales of their epiphanies played a determining role in the reception history of their works: the finale of Mahler's Second Symphony was supposedly born of a "lightning bolt" of inspiration at the funeral of Hans von Bülow, ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Soul of the World

    par Roger Scruton ...
    A compelling defense of the sacred from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood through the lens of science alone. To ... En savoir plus

    $4.11 CAD

  • Nazi Germany and the Jews

    The Years of Perdecution, 1933–1939

    par Saul Friedländer ...
    A great historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research by answering a question that has haunted us for more than 50 years: How did one of the most industrially and culturally advanced nations in the world embark on and continue along the path leading to one of the most enormous criminal enterprises in history, the extermination of Europe's Jews?Giving considerable emphasis to a wealth of new ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Wagnerism

    Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

    par Alex Ross ...
    Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Real Presences

    par George Steiner ...
    Renowned scholar George Steiner explores the power and presence of the unseen in art. "It takes someone of [his] stature to tackle this theme head-on" ( The New York Times).There is a philosophical school of thought that believes the presence of God in art, literature, and music—in creativity in general—is a vacant metaphor, an eroded figure of speech, a ghost in humanity's common parlance. ... En savoir plus

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  • How Jews Became Germans

    The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin

    par Deborah Hertz ...
    A "very readable" history of Jewish conversions to Christianity over two centuries that "tracks the many fascinating twists and turns to this story" ( Library Journal).When the Nazis came to power and created a racial state in the 1930s, they considered it an urgent priority to identify Jews who had converted to Christianity over the preceding centuries. With the help of church officials, a vast ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Fin-De-Siecle Vienna

    Politics and Culture (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    par Carl E. Schorske ...
    A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born."Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $16.99 CAD Maintenant $13.99 CAD

  • Demonizing the Jews

    Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany

    par Christopher J. Probst ...
    "An insightful analysis of the ways in which Protestant reformer Martin Luther's anti-Jewish writings were used by German Protestants during the Third Reich." — Contemporary Church History QuarterlyThe acquiescence of the German Protestant churches in Nazi oppression and murder of Jews is well documented. In this book, Christopher J. Probst demonstrates that a significant number of German ... En savoir plus

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