Michael Klein

Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject

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Departing from the traditional German school of music theorists, Michael Klein injects a unique French critical theory perspective into the framework of music and meaning. Using primarily Lacanian notions of the symptom, that unnamable jouissance located in the unconscious, and the registers of subjectivity (the Imaginary, the Symbolic Order, and the Real), Klein explores how we understand music as both an artistic form created by “the subject” and an artistic expression of a culture that imposes its history on this modern subject. By creatively navigating from critical theory to music, film, fiction, and back to music, Klein distills the kinds of meaning that we have been missing when we perform, listen to, think about, and write about music without the insights of Lacan and others into formulations of modern subjectivity.
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404 printed pages
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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  • Sofya Averchenkovahas quoted4 years ago
    only can man’s being not be understood without madness, but it would not be man’s being if it did not bear madness within itself as the limit of his freedom . . .

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