Metaphysical Song Metaphysical Song

Connecting opera to shifting visions of metaphysics and selfhood across the last four hundred years, this book examines the relationship between the self and me... » 

Connecting opera to shifting visions of metaphysics and selfhood across the last four hundred years, this book examines the relationship between the self and metaphysics, as described by philosophers from Ficino through to Adorno, arguing that opera has brought them to the stage. «