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Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language
May, 2008
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ISBN: 978-0-231-14220-5
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A Note on Translations and Abbreviations
Hors d'ouvre I
Introduction: The Subject of Music and Madness
1. Hearing Voices
Sirens at the Palais Royal
Between the Infinite and the Infinitesimal
Excursus: The Howl of Marsyas
Socratic Energy
2. Unequal Song
Music and the Irrational
Mimesis: Cratylus and the Origin of Language
Identity and Difference
Crisis at the Cafe de la Regence
Satire, Inequality, and the Individual
Concluding Remarks
3. Resounding Sense
A Break in the Grand Confinement
The Emergence of the Mad Musician
Empfindsamkeit
Hegel's Reading of Le neveu
Sentiment de l'existence
4. The Most Violent of the Arts
The Musical Sublime in Longinus and Burke
Kant's Abdication
Community and Herder's Conception of Music
Wackenroder's Berglinger Novella
5. With Arts Unknown Before: Kleist and the Power of Music
Music, Reflection, and Immediacy in Kleist's Letters
Die Heilige Cacilie oder die Gewalt der Musik
Self-Representation
6. Before and After Language: Hoffmann
The Designative and Disclosive Functions of Language: Kreisleriana
The Uses of Form
Emptying Out Into Form: Julia Mark and the "Berganza" Dialogue
Euphony and Discord: "Ritter Gluck"
Postscriptum: "Rat Krespel"
Praescriptum: Kater Murr
Hors d'ouvre II
Notes
Bibliography
Index