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29%OFFPhilip Kitcher - Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach - 9780231162647 - V9780231162647
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Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach

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Description for Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach Hardback. Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures. Num Pages: 280 pages, 17. BIC Classification: 2ACG; AVGC9; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534.
Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Luchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a philosophical perspective, Philip Kitcher connects the predicament of the novella's central character to Western thought's most compelling questions. In Mann's story, the author Gustav von Aschenbach becomes captivated by an adolescent boy, first seen on the lido in Venice, the eventual site of Aschenbach's own death. Mann works through central concerns about how to live, explored with ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
Condition
New
Weight
530g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231162647
SKU
V9780231162647
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About Philip Kitcher
Philip Kitcher is the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and the author of numerous books and articles, including The Ethical Project (2014), Preludes to Pragmatism: Toward a Reconstruction of Philosophy (2012), and Science in a Democratic Society (2011).

Reviews for Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach
Philip Kitcher's book is a profession of love: for Mann's novella, for Mahler's music, and for the commitment to ideas and reflections on life that a certain current of German culture represented in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. One senses that Kitcher has so completely immersed himself in the works of Mann, Mahler's music, their biographies, and to an ... Read more

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