Philosophy
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The Clothes Have No Emperor
We must surely understand Boulez as the instigator of a false conception of the nature of music itself.
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The Myth of Progress in the Arts
On being imprisoned between, on one hand, the past, and on the other, modernism.
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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 only thing worse than searching in vain for the meaning of life is to find it.
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Renewing and Rejecting
At a certain stage, and for no apparent reason, self-criticism gave way to repudiation.
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Music and the Transcendental
Truly serious music has, as it were, put its ear to the ground and heard the far-off murmur of the infinite.
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Music and Culture
Adorno’s concept has the advantage of wrapping music up in an impenetrable web of self-meanings.
