Philosophy
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The Roots of Modernity
Modernity consists of perversions of notions drawn from Christianity; to be a modern means to be deeply enmeshed in them.
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Earth’s Holocaust
“Now we shall get rid of the weight of dead men’s thought, which has hitherto pressed so heavily on the living intellect.”
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Music and the Idea of a World, Part III (Coda)
Music offers assures us that there is something out there in the world that knows our hearts.
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Music and the Idea of a World, Part II
Music as symbol is the whole of all things. It is the world.
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Music and the Idea of a World, Part I
To speak about music is to speak about everything.
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Music, Digestion, and Modern Philosophy
“A momentary illusion of having really got hold of what is the matter with modernity.”
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The Music of the Spheres, or The Metaphysics of Music
“Tonality died somewhere around the time that Nietzsche’s God died.”
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Reflections on “The Ring of the Nibelung”
Wagner’s story is addressed to modern people, for whom the path to heroism is overgrown.
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Brussels, Music, and Humanity
Many have argued that music lifts man to higher levels of mutual understanding and binds people together.
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The Persistence of Beauty
If classical music is not about Beauty, then what is it about?