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Absolute music and the construction of meaning
Daniel K. L. Chua
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Frontmatter
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List of illustrations (page ix)
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Acknowledgements (page x)
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On the preface (page xi)
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Part 1 The Garden of Eden
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1 On history (page 3)
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2 On modernity (page 8)
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3 On disenchantment (page 12)
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4 On division (page 23)
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5 On opera (page 29)
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6 On machines (page 41)
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7 On space (page 51)
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On style (page 61)
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Part 2 The Fruit of Knowledge
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9 On being (page 75)
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10 On the mind (page 82)
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11 On biology (page 92)
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12 On the body (page 98)
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13 On the soul (page 105)
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14 On morality (page 114)
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15 On women (page 126)
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16 On masculinity (page 136)
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17 On independence (page 145)
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18 On heroes (page 150)
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19 On politics (page 162)
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20 On nothing (page 167)
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21 On God (page 171)
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22 On infinity (page 177)
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23 On self-deification (page 183)
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24 On invisibility (page 191)
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25 On conscious life-forms (page 199)
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26 On artificiality (page 209)
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Part 3 The Tower of Babel
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27 On death (page 221)
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28 On absolute music (page 224)
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29 On the beautiful and the sublime (page 228)
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30 On monuments (page 235)
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31 On the apocalypse (page 245)
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32 On the end (page 257)
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33 On suicide (page 266)
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34 On absolute drivel (page 276)
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35 On Babel (page 287)
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Bibliography (page 291)
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Index (page 307)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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MAL | 82.2 (May 2001): 287-291 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3526064 |
JAMS | 57.1 (Spring 2004): 185-193 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4147809 |
NOT | 57.2 (Dec. 2000): 360-362 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/900229 |
JAAC | 60.2 (Spring 2002):200-201 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1520025 |
19CM | 26.2 (Autumn 2002): 184-191 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3250540 |
MT | 141. 1871 (Summer 2000): 59-62 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1004656 |
Citable Link
Published: c1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- 9780521631815 (hardcover)
- 9780511089015 (ebook)