Musikphilosophie als Philosophie im Spannungsfeld zwischen menschlicher Urexpression und künstlerischem Handeln

Covering a vast range of mythological, literary and philosophical history and musical phenonema likewise, throwing in a variety of information not always easy to comprehend, Christoph Türcke explains the origin and main lines of development of music as an elementary form of human expressivity in parallel to language, while sometimes tending to overlook its aesthetic valence as an autonomous product of art.