COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- SERIES-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATIONS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- Philosophy and music -- Meanings and music -- Subject and object -- Foundational philosophy, and the musical alternative -- 1 FORM, FEELING, METAPHYSICS, AND MUSIC -- Form, meaning, and context -- Emotions and music -- Metaphysics and music -- Negative metaphysics? -- 2 MUSIC, LANGUAGE, AND THE ORIGINS OF MODERNITY -- Language and modernity -- Language as representation -- The origin of language and music -- Music, language, and reason -- Heidegger's Herder: reason and the repression of music -- 3 RHYTHM AND ROMANTICISM -- What Kant said about music, and what he could have said -- Feeling, music, and the origin of philosophy -- Music as 'philosophical language' -- 4 HEGEL, PHILOSOPHY, AND MUSIC -- Music and the limits of inferentialism -- Hegel and the content of music -- 5 MUSIC AND THE SUBJECTS OF ROMANTICISM -- The task of philosophy -- Music and community -- Romanticism and musical consciousness -- Schelling: rhythm and self-consciousness -- Music and self-consciousness: Schleiermacher -- 6 MUSIC, FREEDOM, AND THE CRITIQUE OF METAPHYSICS -- Music, philosophy, and politics -- Will, freedom, and music -- Music, will, and tragedy: the return of Dionysus -- Schopenhauer: music and the illusion of freedom -- Music, language, and the ethical: Kierkegaard -- 7 PRO AND CONTRA WAGNER -- The Wagner problem -- Wagner: music, text, and philosophy -- Wagner and Adorno -- Wagner and Dahlhaus -- Nietzsche and Wagner: bad faith? -- 8 MUSIC, LANGUAGE, AND BEING: WITTGENSTEIN AND HEIDEGGER -- Explicit and implicit music -- Logical form and ontological difference -- Playing the language-piano -- Music as a 'manner/melody of human existence' -- On the way to music? -- 9 ADORNO: MUSICAL PHILOSOPHY OR PHILOSOPHICAL MUSIC? -- Dialectics of music.

Settling the score -- The truth of performance -- Truth, mimesis, and history -- Music as socio-historical expression -- Musical philosophy: judgementless synthesis, convention, and expression -- Music, philosophy, and hope -- CONCLUSION -- Cheesecake, or metaphysics? -- Aesthetics, language, and music -- Music as philosophical expression -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.