NIETZSCHE'S ORPHANS by Rebecca Mitchell ( 9780300208894 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

NIETZSCHE'S ORPHANS
MUSIC, METAPHYSICS, AND THE TWILIGHT OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE

By:

Rebecca Mitchell

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0300208898

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9780300208894

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Publisher:

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

14 January, 2016

Series:

Eurasia Past and Present

Pages:

336

Synopsis:

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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24 b-w illus.

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Yale University Press

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