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082 0 4 _a833.912
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aKitcher, Philip
_eautore
245 1 0 _aDeaths in Venice :
_bThe Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach /
_cPhilip Kitcher.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2013
300 _a1 online resource (280 p.) :
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490 0 _aLeonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIllustrations --
_tPreface --
_tList of Abbreviations --
_tA Note on Translations --
_tOne. Discipline --
_tTwo. Beauty --
_tThree. Shadows --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aPublished in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Luchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a philosophical perspective, Philip Kitcher connects the predicament of the novella's central character to Western thought's most compelling questions. In Mann's story, the author Gustav von Aschenbach becomes captivated by an adolescent boy, first seen on the lido in Venice, the eventual site of Aschenbach's own death. Mann works through central concerns about how to live, explored with equal intensity by his German predecessors, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Kitcher considers how Mann's, Britten's, and Visconti's treatments illuminate the tension between social and ethical values and an artist's sensitivity to beauty. Each work asks whether a life devoted to self-sacrifice in the pursuit of lasting achievements can be sustained and whether the breakdown of discipline undercuts its worth. Haunted by the prospect of his death, Aschenbach also helps us reflect on whether it is possible to achieve anything in full awareness of our finitude and in knowing our successes are always incomplete.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 0 _aPhilosophy in literature.
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics.
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