Listening for Utopia in Ernst Bloch's Musical Philosophy

Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Bloch's Teppich: an initial approach
• 2. On the genealogy of the Teppich: metaphor before Bloch
• 3. The conceptual constellation of Bloch's musical philosophy
• 4. Entering Bloch's musical system
• 5. Wagner's animal lyricism
• 6. Bloch's vision of the armored men, or the limits of enlightenment
• 7. The achievement of symphonic authenticity
• 8. Epilogue: an atheism of presence and absence
• Bibliography.