Listening for Utopia in Ernst Bloch's Musical Philosophy

by Benjamin M. Korstvedt

The musical writings of the German philosopher and theorist Ernst Bloch are extraordinarily rich, but also unusually dense, at times even cryptic. Bloch, a profoundly heterodox thinker, brilliantly wove cultural criticism into a larger project of what he termed 'revolutionary gnosis'. Listening for Utopia is both an explication of Bloch's musical thought and a critical development of it. Ultimately, the book seeks to reanimate Bloch's philosophy of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521896150
• ISBN13: 9780521896153
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.7"