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The Hallelujah Effect

Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology

By: Babette Babich

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The Hallelujah Effect

Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology

By: Babette Babich

This book studies the working efficacy of Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah in the context of today's network culture. Especially as recorded on YouTube, k.d. lang's interpretation(s) of Cohen's Hallelujah, embody acoustically and visually/viscerally, what Nietzsche named the 'spirit of music'. Today, the working of music is magnified and transformed by recording dynamics and mediated via Facebook exchanges, blog postings and video sites. Given the sexual/religious core of Cohen's Hallelujah, this study poses a phenomenological reading of the objectification of both men and women, raising the question of desire, including gender issues and both homosexual and heterosexual desire. A review of critical thinking about musical performance as 'currency' and consumed commodity takes up Adorno's reading of Benjamin's analysis of the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction as applied to music/radio/sound and the persistent role of 'recording consciousness'. Ultimately, the question of what Nietzsche called the becoming-human-of-dissonance is explored in terms of both ancient tragedy and Beethoven's striking deployment of dissonance as Nietzsche analyses both as playing with suffering, discontent, and pain itself, a playing for the sake not of language or sense but musically, as joy.

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Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology

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Epicurus: Life Reflections

By: Babette Babich

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Epicurus: Life Reflections

By: Babette Babich

Epicurus provides a recipe for happiness, beginning with the reminder that happiness, at the end of the day, is the absence of suffering. This reflection can be epitomized in the Epicurean tradition in the fourfold list summarized in Philodemus, 1. Don't fear the gods; 2. Don't worry about death; 3. What is good is easy to get; 4. What is terrible is easy to endure. This book discusses the simple art of happiness. But is that all it takes? Famously, Epicurus offers a more memorable and personable version: a little garden, some figs, small cheeses, a few friends? This idea of sufficiency suggests that the ingredients of happiness are available to nearly everyone (Epicurus counted women and slaves in his school). But this modest list is also elusive. This, and no more, is the measure of happiness.

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1949766012

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Günther Anders’ Philosophy of Technology

From Phenomenology to Critical Theory

By: Babette Babich

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Günther Anders’ Philosophy of Technology

From Phenomenology to Critical Theory

By: Babette Babich

Gunther Anders' Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive exploration of the ground-breaking work of German thinker Gunther Anders. Anders' philosophy has become increasingly prescient in our digitised, technological age as his work predicts the prevalence of social media, ubiquitous surveillance and the turn to big data. Anders' ouevre also explored the technologies of nuclear power and the biotech concerns for the human and transhuman condition which have become so central to current theory. Babette Babich argues that Anders offers important resources on streaming digital media through his writings on radio, television and film and is, unusually, both a comprehensive and profound thinker. Anders' relationship with key philosophers like Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin and his thinking on Goethe, Nietzsche and Rilke is also explored with a focus on the deep impact he made on his peers. It reflects specifically on the intersection of Anders' thought Heidegger and the Frankfurt school and how influential a figure he was on the landscape of 20th century philosophy. A compelling rehabilitation of a thinker with profound contemporary relevance.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350228605

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Words in Blood, Like Flowers

Philosophy and Poetry, Music and Eros in Holderlin, Nietzsche, and Heidegger

By: Babette E. Babich

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Words in Blood, Like Flowers

Philosophy and Poetry, Music and Eros in Holderlin, Nietzsche, and Heidegger

By: Babette E. Babich

A philosophical exploration of the power that poetry, music, and the erotic have on us.

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SUNY Press

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Günther Anders’ Philosophy of Technology

From Phenomenology to Critical Theory

By: Babette Babich

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Günther Anders’ Philosophy of Technology

From Phenomenology to Critical Theory

By: Babette Babich

Gunter Anders' Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive exploration of the ground-breaking work of German thinker Gunter Anders. Anders' philosophy has become increasingly prescient in our digitised, technological age as his work predicts the prevalence of social media, ubiquitous surveillance and the turn to big data. Anders' ouevre also explored the technologies of nuclear power and the biotech concerns for the human and transhuman condition which have become so central to current theory. Babette Babich argues that Anders offers important resources on streaming digital media through his writings on radio, television and film and is, unusually, both a comprehensive and profound thinker. Anders' relationship with key philosophers like Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin and his thinking on Goethe, Nietzsche and Rilke is also explored with a focus on the deep impact he made on his peers. It reflects specifically on the intersection of Anders' thought Heidegger and the Frankfurt school and how influential a figure he was on the landscape of 20th century philosophy. A compelling rehabilitation of a thinker with profound contemporary relevance.

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1350228591

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Epicurus: Life Reflections

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The Hallelujah Effect

The Hallelujah Effect

The Hallelujah Effect

The Hallelujah Effect

Epicurus: Life Reflections

Epicurus: Life Reflections

Günther Anders’ Philosophy of Technology

Günther Anders’ Philosophy of Technology

Words in Blood, Like Flowers

Words in Blood, Like Flowers

Günther Anders’ Philosophy of Technology

Günther Anders’ Philosophy of Technology

Epicurus: Life Reflections

Epicurus: Life Reflections

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