Adrian Daub: 4 books
Uncivil Unions
The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism and Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
“What a strange invention marriage is!” wrote Kierkegaard. “Is it the expression of that inexplicable erotic sentiment, that concordant elective affinity of souls, or is it a duty or a partnership . . . or is it a little of all that?”
Like Kierkegaard a few decades later, many of Germany’s...
Tristan's Shadow
Sexuality and the Total Work of Art after Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, and Siegfried. Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of the nineteenth century’s most influential operas—and created some of the most indelible characters ever to grace the stage. But over the course of his polarizing...
The James Bond Songs
Pop Anthems of Late Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Starting with 1964's Goldfinger, every James Bond film has followed the same ritual, and so has its audience: after an exciting action sequence the screen goes black and the viewer spends three long minutes absorbing abstract opening credits and a song that sounds like it wants to return to 1964....
Four-Handed Monsters
Four-Hand Piano Playing and Nineteenth-Century Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In the course of the nineteenth century, four-hand piano playing emerged across Europe as a popular pastime of the well-heeled classes and of those looking to join them. Nary a canonic work of classical music that was not set for piano duo, nary a house that could afford not to invest in them. Duets...