Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning

Contents

• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• On the preface
• Part I . The Garden of Eden:
• 1. On history
• 2. On modernity
• 3. On disenchantment
• 4. On division
• 5. On opera
• 6. On machines
• 7. On space
• 8. On style
• Part II . The Fruit of Knowledge:
• 9. On being
• 10. On the mind
• 11. On biology
• 12. On the body
• 13. On the soul
• 14. On morality
• 15. On women
• 16. On masculinity
• 17. On independence
• 18. On heroes
• 19. On politics
• 20. On nothing
• 21. On God
• 22. On infinity
• 23. On self-deification
• 24. On invisibility
• 25. On conscious life-forms
• 26. On artificiality
• Part III . The Tower of Babel:
• 27. On death
• 28. On absolute music
• 29. On the beautiful and the sublime
• 30. On monuments
• 31. On the apocalypse
• 32. On the end
• 33. On suicide
• 34. On absolute drivel
• 35. On Babel
• Bibliography
• Index.