Moral Fire: Musical Portraits from America's Fin de Siècle
Joseph Horowitz
Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: If the Met’s screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions ensnare us in a surrogate world that shuns all but facile passions; only Jon Stewart and Bill Maher share moments of moral outrage disguised as comedy.”
Arguing that the past can prove instructive and inspirational, Horowitz revisits four astonishing personalitiesHenry Higginson, Laura Langford, Henry Krehbiel and Charles Iveswhose missionary work in the realm of culture signaled a belief in the fundamental decency of civilized human nature, in the universality of moral values, and in progress toward a kingdom of peace and love.
Arguing that the past can prove instructive and inspirational, Horowitz revisits four astonishing personalitiesHenry Higginson, Laura Langford, Henry Krehbiel and Charles Iveswhose missionary work in the realm of culture signaled a belief in the fundamental decency of civilized human nature, in the universality of moral values, and in progress toward a kingdom of peace and love.
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Année:
2012
Editeur::
University of California Press
Langue:
english
Pages:
270
ISBN 10:
0520267443
ISBN 13:
9780520267442
Fichier:
PDF, 2.65 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2012