Deaths in Venice : : The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach / / Philip Kitcher.
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...
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Kitcher, Philip, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Deaths in Venice : The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach / Philip Kitcher. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource (280 p.) : 17 text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- A Note on Translations -- One. Discipline -- Two. Beauty -- Three. Shadows -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 equal intensity by his German predecessors, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Kitcher considers how Mann's, Britten's, and Visconti's treatments illuminate the tension between social and ethical values and an artist's sensitivity to beauty. Each work asks whether a life devoted to self-sacrifice in the pursuit of lasting achievements can be sustained and whether the breakdown of discipline undercuts its worth. Haunted by the prospect of his death, Aschenbach also helps us reflect on whether it is possible to achieve anything in full awareness of our finitude and in knowing our successes are always incomplete. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Philosophy in literature. PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442472 print 9780231162647 https://doi.org/10.7312/kitc16264 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231536035 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231536035/original |
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