Music 576 Winter 2001 Rahn

The Problem of Good and Evil ... Music

Initial Readings (list dated Jan 3 2001)

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Plato. The Republic.

Rahn, “Centers; Dissenters” and “D-Light Reflecting”, in Music Inside Out..

Nietzsche. The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music.

Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. 1987. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Translated by Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Read:

Chapter 6 “November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?”

Chapter 10 “1730: Becoming-intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible ...”

See also:

Chapter 1 “Introduction: Rhizome”

Chapter 11 “1837: Of the Refrain”

Tom Baker, How Do You Make Music Without Substance? in Open Space Magazine, issue 1 (Spring 1999)

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Some other texts:

Jacques Attali Noise: The Political Economy of Music.

Averroës Be'ur le-sefer hanhagat ha-medinah le-Aplaton. English

Averroes on Plato's Republic. Translated, with an introd. and notes, by Ralph Lerner. Ithaca [N.Y.] Cornell University Press [1974]

Collins “Ritual Sacrifice and the Political Economy of Music.” In Perspectives on Musical

Aesthetics (ed. John Rahn).

LaFargue, Michael. Tao and method : a reasoned approach to the Tao Te Ching. Albany : State University of New York Press, c1994

McClary, Susan. Feminine Endings.

Rochlitz “Language for One, Language for All: Adorno and Modernism.” In Perspectives on Musical Aesthetics, ed. John Rahn.

Subotnik, Rose. 1991. Developing Variations: Style and Ideology in Western Music. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

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Reserve List:

Lemert, Edwin McCarthy, 1912-

The trouble with evil : social control at the edge of morality

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1997

McFarlane, Adrian Anthony, 1946-

A grammar of fear and evil : a Husserlian-Wittgensteinian hermeneutic

New York : P. Lang, c1996

Oh, Young Ran, 1965-

The eternal paradox in Franz Liszt's persona : good and evil as illustrated in his piano

sonatas UW thesis 1996

Tsevi Hirsh, mi-Ziditshov, d. 1831

Sur me-ra` va-`aseh tov. English

Turn aside from evil and do good : an introduction and a way to the Tree of Life

Zevi Hirsch Eichenstein ;

English translation by Louis Jacobs with an introduction and extensive annotations

London ; Washington : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1995

Schwarz, Hans, 1939-

Evil : a historical and theological perspective

translated by Mark Worthing

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c1995

Baudrillard, Jean

Transparence du mal. English

The transparency of evil : essays on extreme phenomena

London : New York : Verso, 1993

Phra Thøepwøethøi (Prayut)

Good, evil and beyond : kamma in the Buddha's teaching /

byBhikkhu P.A. Payutto ; translted from the Thai by

Bhikku Puriso

Bangkok : Buddhadhamma Foundation, 1993

Being and goodness :

the concept of the good in metaphysics and philosophical theology /

edited by Scott MacDonald

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1991

Gaita, Raimond, 1946-

Good and evil : an absolute conception / Raimond Gaita

Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1991

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900

Jenseits von Gut und Boese. English

Beyond good and evil : prelude to a philosophy of the future

Friedrich Nietzsche ; translated by R. J. Hollingdale ;

with an introduction by Michael Tanner

London, England ; New York, New York, USA : Penguin Books, c1990

Major sins in Islam

compiled and rendered into English by Muhammad Iqbal Siddiqi

Lahore, Pakistan : Kazi Publications, [1985?]

Suzzallo/Allen Stacks BP188.13 .M35 1985

Evans, G. R. (Gillian Rosemary)

Augustine on evil / G.R. Evans

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982

The Power of God : readings on omnipotence and evil

edited by Linwood Urban, Douglas N. Walton

New York : Oxford University Press, 1978

Goerman, Ulf, 1943-

A good God? : a logical and semantical analysis of the problem of evil /

Stockholm : Verbum ; Lund : H. Ohlsson, 1977

Hick, John Evil and the God of love

New York : Harper & Row, 1977, 1966

Doniger, Wendy

The origins of evil in Hindu mythology / Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1976

Herman, A. L

The problem of evil and Indian thought / Arthur L. Herman

Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass, 1976

Ahmed, Sami Said

Early ideas of evil and devil / by Sami Said Ahmed

Baghdad : al-Jamia Press, 1970

Seminar on the Problem of Evil (1969 : Belgaum)

The problem of evil; seminar proceedings

[Belgaum [India] Academy of Comparative Philosophy and Religion, 1969]

Camus, Albert, 1913-1960

Resistance, rebellion, and death. Translated from the French and with an introd. by Justin

O'Brien

New York, Knopf, 1961 [c1960]

The theory of evil in the metaphysics of St. Thomas and its contemporary significance, by

Sister Mary Edwin DeCoursey, S.C.L

Washington, Catholic Univ. of America Press, 1948

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963

The great divorce, by C. S. Lewis

New York, The Macmillan company, 1946

Paton, H. J. (Herbert James), 1887-

The good will, a study in the coherence theory of goodness, by H. J. Paton

London, G. Allen & Unwin; New York, Macmillan [1927]

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939

Ideas of good and evil / by W.B. Yeats

New York : Macmillan, 1903

Johnson, John, 1706-1791

A mathematical question [microform] : propounded by the vicegerent of the world :

answered by the king of glory :

enigmatically represented, and demonstratively opened / by John Johnson

Kennebunk [Me.] : Printed by James K. Remich for Gideon Cook, 1819

A defence of Methodism: delivered extemporary in a public debate, (but now considerably

enlarged,) held in London, December 12, 19, and 26, 1785. On the following question, have

the Methodists done most good or evil?

Dublin : printed by B. Dugdale, and sold at No.12, White-Friar Street, 1789

Edwards, John, 1637-1716

The eternal and intrinsick reasons of good and evil [microform] : a sermon preach'd at the

commencement at

Cambridge on Sunday the second day of July, 1699 / by John Edwards ..

Cambridge : Printed at the University Press for Edmund Jeffery, 1700

Lawrence, Henry, 1600-1664

Of our communion and warre with angels

An history of angells [microform] : being a theologicall treatise of our communion and

warre with them : handled on

the 6th chapter of the Ephesians, the 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 verses /

by Henry Lawrence

London : Printed by M.S. and are to be sold by William Nealand ..., 1649