May 5th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language by John T. Hamilton event at Book Culture
In Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language John Hamilton investigates the way literary, philosophical, and psychological treatments of music and madness challenge the limits of representation and create a crisis of language. Hamilton traces the linkage of music and madness that courses through the work of Herder, Hegel, Wackenroder, Kleist, and E. T. A. Hoffmann. John T. Hamilton is professor of comparative literature and Germanic languages and literature at New York University.
Join John Hamilton as he discussed Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language tonight at 7pm at Book Culture in New York City. He will be joined by Professor Avital Ronell also of NYU.