University Of Minnesota Press. Used - Very Good. 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Octavo. xxxi & 208 pp. Mild shelf wear to dust jacket. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. Very Good. (Subject: Philosophy). University Of Minnesota Press ISBN 0816636664 9780816636662 [US]

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Date: 2006. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6". xxxi, 208pp. Very mild shelf wear to corners and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Light rubbing to covers of jacket. Gray cloth over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In 1947 Theodor W. Adorno, one of the seminal European philosophers of the postwar years, announced his return after exile in the United States to a devastated Europe by writing Philosophy of New Music. Intensely polemical from its first publication, every aspect of this work was met with extreme reactions, from stark dismissal to outrage. Even Schoenberg reviled it. Despite the controversy, Philosophy of New Music became highly regarded and widely read among musicians, scholars, and social philosophers. Marking a major turning point in his musicological philosophy, Adorno located a critique of musical reproduction as internal to composition itself, rather than as a matter of the reproduction of musical performance. Consisting of two distinct essays, "Schoenberg and Progress" and "Stravinsky and Reaction," this work poses the musical extremes in which Adorno perceived the struggle for the cultural future of Europe: between human emancipation and barbarism, between the compositional techniques and achievements of Schoenberg and Stravinsky. In this completely new translation—presented along with an extensive ...

Hardback. New. In 1947, Theodor Adorno, one of the seminal European philosophers of the postwar years, announced his return after exile in the United States to a devastated Europe by writing Philosophy of New Music. Presented with an introduction by distinguished translator, Robert Hullot-Kentor, this book looks at Adorno's illustrious and influential oeuvre. ISBN 0816636664 9780816636662 [GB]

Univ of Minnesota Pr, Date: 2006. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 208 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. 2006. Univ of Minnesota Pr ISBN 0816636664 9780816636662 [GB]