Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (Hardcover)

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; On the preface; Part I. The Garden of Eden: 1. On history; 2. On modernity; 3. On disenchantment; 4. On division; 5. On opera; 6. On machines; 7. On space; 8. On style; Part II. The Fruit of Knowledge: 9. On being; 10. On the mind; 11. On biology; 12. On the body; 13. On the soul; 14. On morality; 15. On women; 16. On masculinity; 17. On independence; 18. On heroes; 19. On politics; 20. On nothing; 21. On God; 22. On infinity; 23. On self-deification; 24. On invisibility; 25. On conscious life-forms; 26. On artificiality; Part III. The Tower of Babel: 27. On death; 28. On absolute music; 29. On the beautiful and the sublime; 30. On monuments; 31. On the apocalypse; 32. On the end; 33. On suicide; 34. On absolute drivel; 35. On Babel; Bibliography; Index.