{"product_id":"the-don-giovanni-moment-essays-on-the-legacy-of-an-opera-9780231137546","title":"The Don Giovanni Moment: Essays on the Legacy of an Opera","description":"Mozart's \u003ci\u003eDon Giovanni\u003c\/i\u003e is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e Don Giovanni \u003ci\u003eMoment\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to examine the aesthetic and moral legacy of Mozart's opera in the literature, philosophy, and culture of the nineteenth century. The prominent scholars in this collection address the opera's impact on the philosophical visions of Kierkegaard, Goethe, and Williams and its influence on the literary and dramatic works of Pushkin, Hoffmann, M rike, Byron, Wagner, Strauss, and Shaw. Through a close and careful analysis of \u003ci\u003eDon Giovanni\u003c\/i\u003e's literary and philosophical reception and its many appropriations, rewritings, and retellings, these contributors treat the opera as a vantage point from which theory and philosophy can reconsider romanticism's central themes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs lively and passionate as the opera itself, these essays continue the spirited debate over the meaning and character of \u003ci\u003eDon Giovanni\u003c\/i\u003e and its powerful legacy. Together they prove that Mozart's brilliant artistic achievement is as potent and relevant today as when it was first performed two centuries ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLydia Goehr is professor of philosophy and aesthetics at Columbia University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Quest for Voice: Music, Politics, and the Limits of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eElective Affinities: Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory\u003c\/i\u003e. Daniel Herwitz is the Mary Fair Croushore Professor of Humanities and director of the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Star as Icon: Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption\u003c\/i\u003e, and his short stories have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eMichigan Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318557643026,"sku":"9780231137546","price":153.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_35e7e7df-6d65-4275-859b-3b95a8f7d480.jpg?v=1727557533","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-don-giovanni-moment-essays-on-the-legacy-of-an-opera-9780231137546","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}