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Rebecca Mitchell - Nietzsche's Orphans, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Nietzsche's Orphans

Music, Metaphysics, and the Twilight of the Russian Empire

Av Rebecca Mitchell

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A prevailing belief among Russia’s cultural elite in the early twentieth century was that the music of composers such as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Aleksandr Scriabin, and Nikolai Medtner could forge a shared identity for the Russian people across social and economic divides. In this illuminating study of competing artistic and ideological visions at the close of Russia’s “Silver Age,” author Rebecca Mitchell interweaves cultural history, music, and philosophy to explore how “Nietzsche’s orphans” strove to find in music a means to overcome the disunity of modern life in the final tumultuous years before World War I and the Communist Revolution.
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Rebecca Mitchell is assistant professor of history at Middlebury College. She lives in Vermont.

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“Modernity fragments, but music unites: such is the thesis of this haunting, provocative book.  Highlighting Scriabin, Rachmaninoff and the Medtner brothers, Mitchell examines those intense pre-Bolshevik decades when Russian musicians and music-lovers drew on Schopenhauer, Soloviev, and the youthful Nietzsche to elevate and harmonize their homeland. Their ‘musical metaphysics' promised apocalyptic synthesis. Like Orpheus, all was soon dismembered.”—Caryl Emerson, Princeton University

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