Unfinished Music

by Richard Kramer

Book Overview

Unfinished Music draws its inspiration from the riddling aphorism by Walter Benjamin that serves as its epigraph: "the work is the death mask of its conception." The work in its finished, perfected state conceals the enlivening process engaged in its creation. An opening chapter of this book examines some explosive ideas from the mind of J. G. Hamann, eccentric figure of the anti-rationalist Enlightenment, on the place of language at the seat of thought...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195326822
• ISBN13: 9780195326826
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"