Kathleen Marie Higgins is professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Nietzsche's Zarathustra.

When it was originally published in 1991, The Music of Our Lives was literally ahead of its time. Now it returns in a revised edition and Kathleen Higgins's splendid examination of the ethical dimensions of music is available again.

• Chapter 1 Foreword to the Revised EditionChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 Music "in Itself": Its Development and StatusChapter 4 The Many Faces of FormChapter 5 Music and Emotions: The HistoryChapter 6 Music and Emotions: Theories, Problems, and SolutionsChapter 7 The Ethical Aspects of Music: Music as Influence and EducatorChapter 8 The Ethical Aspects of Music: Music as Metaphor, Symbol, and ModelChapter 9 How Music can Assist Philosophical Ethics

Kathleen Marie Higgins is professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Nietzsche's Zarathustra.

When it was originally published in 1991, The Music of Our Lives was literally ahead of its time. Now it returns in a revised edition and Kathleen Higgins's splendid examination of the ethical dimensions of music is available again.

• Chapter 1 Foreword to the Revised EditionChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 Music "in Itself": Its Development and StatusChapter 4 The Many Faces of FormChapter 5 Music and Emotions: The HistoryChapter 6 Music and Emotions: Theories, Problems, and SolutionsChapter 7 The Ethical Aspects of Music: Music as Influence and EducatorChapter 8 The Ethical Aspects of Music: Music as Metaphor, Symbol, and ModelChapter 9 How Music can Assist Philosophical Ethics

Kathleen Marie Higgins is professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Nietzsche's Zarathustra.

When it was originally published in 1991, The Music of Our Lives was literally ahead of its time. Now it returns in a revised edition and Kathleen Higgins's splendid examination of the ethical dimensions of music is available again.

• Chapter 1 Foreword to the Revised EditionChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 Music "in Itself": Its Development and StatusChapter 4 The Many Faces of FormChapter 5 Music and Emotions: The HistoryChapter 6 Music and Emotions: Theories, Problems, and SolutionsChapter 7 The Ethical Aspects of Music: Music as Influence and EducatorChapter 8 The Ethical Aspects of Music: Music as Metaphor, Symbol, and ModelChapter 9 How Music can Assist Philosophical Ethics