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Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav Von Aschenbach by Philip Kitcher: GOOD
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- Artikelzustand
- Pages
- 280
- Publication Date
- 2016-07-12
- Book Title
- Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav Von Aschenbach
- ISBN
- 9780231162654
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231162650
ISBN-13
9780231162654
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219308535
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Publication Name
Deaths in Venice : the Cases of Gustav Von Aschenbach
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Subject
European / German, European / General, Aesthetics, Genres & Styles / Opera, Subjects & Themes / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Music, Philosophy
Series
Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
14.5 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
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Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Deaths in Venice is a thorough discussion of the possible relation of literature, and art in general, to philosophical thinking. It is this double intensity of perspectives--a double intensity that is never sacrificed in the one or the other direction--that makes reading the book a unique experience., [An] outstanding, intellectually agile book, which sheds so much fresh light on Mann's work and on the philosophical questions that it explores., Original and thought provoking.... [ Deaths in Venice ] is a delight to read, and Kitcher's deep commitment to humanism and his passion for art radiate contagiously from every page., Unusually rich, rewarding, and astounding in its range, Deaths in Venice asks important philosophical questions-about art's demands on its practitioners, its connections to the rest of life, and the possibility of endowing our short, evanescent lives with some lasting significance. More than reaching conclusions, these works provide beginnings: examples of new human possibilities that are not to be imitated but transcended-and that, in large part, is how the book itself proceeds. This is much more than a work on the philosophy of art: it does philosophy with art., Deaths in Venice is a thorough discussion of the possible relation of literature, and art in general, to philosophical thinking. It is this double intensity of perspectives-a double intensity that is never sacrificed in the one or the other direction-that makes reading the book a unique experience., Unusually rich, rewarding, and astounding in its range, Deaths in Venice asks important philosophical questions--about art's demands on its practitioners, its connections to the rest of life, and the possibility of endowing our short, evanescent lives with some lasting significance. More than reaching conclusions, these works provide beginnings: examples of new human possibilities that are not to be imitated but transcended--and that, in large part, is how the book itself proceeds. This is much more than a work on the philosophy of art: it does philosophy with art., Deaths in Venice is to the twenty-first century what Nietzsche's literary and musical criticism was to the nineteenth: a philosopher's profound, shrewd, learned, sharp-eyed, and humane interpretation of art, which is also a profound interpretation of daily life. Starting from the doomed, lonely passion of Thomas Mann's Aschenbach, Philip Kitcher explores three millennia of thinking and the hidden mysteries of the individual mind as it confronts itself, its neighbors, and the universe., Philip Kitcher's book is a profession of love: for Mann's novella, for Mahler's music, and for the commitment to ideas and reflections on life that a certain current of German culture represented in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. One senses that Kitcher has so completely immersed himself in the works of Mann, Mahler's music, their biographies, and to an extent the works by Britten and Visconti, that he speaks from within these works and lives.
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
833.912
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Preface List of Abbreviations A Note on Translations 1. Discipline 2. Beauty 3. Shadows Notes Index
Synopsis
Diving into the philosophical depths of Thomas Mann's beloved novella, as imagined in words, music, and film., Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venic e is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Luchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a philosophical perspective, Philip Kitcher connects the predicament of the novella's central character to Western thought's most compelling questions. In Mann's story, the author Gustav von Aschenbach becomes captivated by an adolescent boy, first seen on the lido in Venice, the eventual site of Aschenbach's own death. Mann works through central concerns about how to live, explored with equal intensity by his German predecessors, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Kitcher considers how Mann's, Britten's, and Visconti's treatments illuminate the tension between social and ethical values and an artist's sensitivity to beauty. Each work asks whether a life devoted to self-sacrifice in the pursuit of lasting achievements can be sustained and whether the breakdown of discipline undercuts its worth. Haunted by the prospect of his death, Aschenbach also helps us reflect on whether it is possible to achieve anything in full awareness of our finitude and in knowing our successes are always incomplete.
LC Classification Number
PT2625.A44T6438 2016
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