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<p>In this bold recasting of operatic history, Gary Tomlinson connects opera to shifting visions of metaphysics and selfhood across the last four hundred years. The operatic voice, he maintains, has always acted to open invisible, supersensible realms to the perceptions of its listeners. In doing so, it has articulated changing relations between the self and metaphysics. Tomlinson examines these relations as they have been described by philosophers from Ficino through Descartes, Kant, and Nietzs
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- Author
- Tomlinson, Gary
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691004099
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Music, Philosophy, Opera
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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