The Sound of Ontology: Music as a Model for Metaphysics

by Kenneth Lafave

The Sound of Ontology: Music as a Model for Metaphysics explores connections between Western art music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the ideas that dominated philosophy leading up to and during that period. In the process of establishing John Cage as Richard Wagner's heir via Arnold Schoenberg, the author discovers that the old metaphysics of representation is still in charge of how we think about music and about experience in general...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498551866
• ISBN13: 9781498551861
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"