{"product_id":"quasi-una-fantasia-essays-on-modern-music-9781844677924","title":"Quasi Una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music","description":"This collection covers a wide range of topics, from a moving study of Bizet's \u003ci\u003eCarmen\u003c\/i\u003e to an entertainingly caustic exploration of the hierarchies of the auditorium. Especially significant is Adorno's \"dialectical portrait\" of Stravinsky, in which Adorno both reconsiders and refines his damning indictment of the composer in \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy on Modern Music\u003c\/i\u003e. Throughout, Adorno is sustained by the conviction that music is supremely human because it is capable of communicating inhumanity while resisting it. His belief in the benevolent and transformative power of music reverberates throughout these writings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTheodor Adorno\u003c\/b\u003e was director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt from 1956 until his death in 1969. His works include \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Wagner\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAesthetic Theory\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eNegative Dialectics\u003c\/i\u003e; and (with Max Horkheimer) \u003ci\u003eDialectic of Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTowards a New Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50856894955794,"sku":"9781844677924","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_897fe47a-3722-44b6-8d55-4a05fa82d307.jpg?v=1737514919","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/quasi-una-fantasia-essays-on-modern-music-9781844677924","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}