Contents
A Note on Translations and Abbreviations
Introduction: The Subject of Music and Madness
Between the Infinite and the Infinitesimal
Mimesis: Cratylus and the Origin of Language
Crisis at the Café de la Régence
Satire, Inequality, and the Individual
A Break in the Grand Confinement
The Emergence of the Mad Musician
4 The Most Violent of the Arts
The Musical Sublime in Longinus and Burke
Community and Herder’s Conception of Music
Wackenroder’s Berglinger Novella
5 With Arts Unknown Before: Kleist and the Power of Music
Music, Reflection, and Immediacy in Kleist’s Letters
Die Heilige Cäcilie oder die Gewalt der Musik
6 Before and After Language: Hoffmann
The Designative and Disclosive Functions of Language: Kreisleriana
Emptying Out Into Form: Julia Mark and the “Berganza” Dialogue