Rilke and Love

Stern/Anders and Arendt, “Rilke’s Duino Elegies”

Background: Rilke, Duino Elegies

Recommended: 

Babich, “Love Songs to God”

Nietzsche and Beethoven: On the 'Becoming-Human-of-Dissonance'

 "Nietzsche and Beethoven: On the 'Becoming-Human-of-Dissonance'," Ch 10 in The Hallelujah Effect

Adorno on Music and Radio: Acoustic Time and Acoustic Space

“Adorno’s Phenomenology: Radio Physiognomy and Music” in The Hallelujah Effect

Babich, “Radio Ghosts: Phenomenology’s Phantoms and Digital Autism”

Background: Augustine, Confessions, Book 11

Recommended: 

Babich, “Adorno's Radio Phenomenology: Technical Reproduction, Physiognomy, and Music”

Kane, “Phenomenology, Physiognomy, and the 'Radio Voice'”

Steege, “This Is Not a Test”

Babich, “Günther Anders’s Epitaph for Aikichi Kuboyama”

Forgiveness and the Human Condition

Babich, “Hallelujah and Atonement”

Recommended:

Pally, “Leonard Cohen’s Jewish and Christian Imagery”

Rosemann, “Leonard Cohen, Philosopher”

Performance Practice

“Performance Practice and the Hallelujah Effect”

Rec: Babich, “Musical ‘Covers’ and the Culture Industry”

k.d. lang’s Hallelujah

 

 Ch. 4 “'Covering' Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah” and Ch. 5 “You Don’t Really Care for Music Do ya?” in The Hallelujah Effect

            

Rec: Gill Valentine, “CreatingTransgressive Space”

Male Desire

Ch. 2 “Cohen’s Hallelujahs and Other Hallelujahs” and Ch. 3 “On Male Desire and Music”

Rec: 

Cohen, “Various Positions” in Stranger Music

Manne, “Humanizing Hatred” in Down Girl

Burnell, “Touching the Perfect”