When Jonathan Segel joined us for episode #115, I had hoped to get him talking about the experience of music and the life of a professional musician à la this rant on his blog. As it turned out, there was just too much Schopenhauer to get through for much of that to happen, so I proposed a more free-form, supplemental discussion. Plans for our talk soon grew to include Wes (so Continue Reading …
Listen to the Full-Capacity Ep. 115 Aftershow
After our technical debacle last time that resulted in us having only one Citizen listener attending, this time Danny Lobell and I had a packed house to reflect on episode 115 on Schopenhauer and music. Jonathan Segel was good enough to rejoin us to show off his infant daughter and rail about Beethoven. Previous guest Dave Buchanan brought Pythagoras into the picture, and Continue Reading …
Episode 115: Schopenhauer on Music with Guest Jonathan Segel (Citizen Edition)
On Arthur Schopenhauer's The World As Will and Representation (1818), vol. 1, book 3, sections 34, 38-39, 40, 45, and focusing on 51 and 52, plus chapters 34 and 39 from vol. 3 (1844). This continues our previous discussion of book 2 and the beginning of book 3. Is music just pleasing, structured sound? Schopenhauer thinks it's much more than that: it's our way of Continue Reading …
Episode 115: Schopenhauer on Music with Guest Jonathan Segel
On Arthur Schopenhauer's The World As Will and Representation (1818), vol. 1, book 3, sections 34, 38-39, 40, 45, and focusing on 51 and 52, plus chapters 34 and 39 from vol. 3 (1844). This continues our previous discussion of book 2 and the beginning of book 3. Is music just pleasing, structured sound? Schopenhauer thinks it's much more than that: it's our way of Continue Reading …
Topic for #115: Schopenhauer on Music & Art (w/ Jonathan Segel)
On 4/19/15, we recorded the second part of our current treatment of Arthur Schopenhauer, this time covering chiefly music, but also aesthetics more generally, situating appreciation of the different types of art within Schopenhauer's weird metaphysics of the Will as described in episode #114. Our guest Jonathan Segel has been the long-time violinist/etc. for one of my Continue Reading …
Zizek and Adorno: The Function of the Popular?
[Editor's Note: We welcome Derick from our semiotics episode You can read more of him on his blog.] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-njxKF8CkoU Watch on YouTube. With Slavoj Zizek's Lacanized form of Hegelian Marxism being all the rage these days, it is interesting to look at the Frankfurt School's earlier Freudian version of the Continue Reading …