Nietzsche and Music: Philosophical Thoughts and Musical Experiments

Aysegul Durakoglu · Michael Steinmann · Yunus Tuncel

Jun 2022 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was not only a philosopher who loved and wrote about music; he was also a musician, pianist, and composer. In this ground-breaking volume, philosophers, historians, musicians, and musicologists come together to explore Nietzsche’s thought and music in all its complexity. Starting from the role that music played in the formation and articulation of Nietzsche’s thought, as well as the influence that contemporary composers had on him, the essays provide an in-depth analysis of the structural and stylistic aspects of his compositions. The volume highlights the significance of music in Nietzsche’s life and looks deeply at his musical experiments which led to a new and radically different style of composition in relation with his philosophical thought. It also traces the influence that Nietzsche had on many other musicians and musical genres, from Russian composers to current rock music and heavy metal.

About the author

Aysegul Durakoglu is Professor of Music at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA, and has concertized as a pianist and chamber musician nationally and internationally. She pursued her graduate studies at the Juilliard School and received a PhD from New York University, where she taught music theory and piano classes. Her major albums include Dances through the Keyboard and Douze Etudes by Claude Debussy.

Michael Steinmann is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in Humanities and Social Sciences at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA. He received his PhD from the University of Tübingen, Germany, and his Habilitation from the University of Freiburg. His books include The Ethics of Friedrich Nietzsche (2000), The Openness of Meaning. Logic and Language in Martin Heidegger (2008), and Reframing Ethics through Dialectics. A New Understanding of the Moral Good (2022).

Yunus Tuncel is a co-founder of the Nietzsche Circle and the Editor-in-Chief of its electronic journal, The Agonist. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research, USA, and teaches philosophy at New York University. He is the author of Towards a Genealogy of Spectacle (2011), Agon in Nietzsche (2013), Emotion in Sports (2019), and Nietzsche on Human Emotions (2021), and the editor of Nietzsche and Transhumanism (2017).

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