Thursday, February 05, 2004
The Wall Street Journal has this review of Georges Liebert's new book "Nietzsche and Music" (Chicago, 291 pages, $38).
It was Nietzsche, after all, who once remarked that "without music, life would be an error." Mr. Liebert assigns two possible meanings to this remark: Music is a way of making life bearable -- a beautiful refuge in a world otherwise ugly and hostile to human happiness. Or it is, in itself, a powerful affirmation of life, in all its joy and sorrow. Nietzsche shifted between these two understandings, as Mr. Liebert shows.
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