Preamble: Schumann, Subjectivity; Prosopopoeic Preliminaries: 1. Defining subjectivity; Part I. Hearing Subjects: 2. Hearing the self; 3. Hearing selves; Part II. Hearing Presence: 4. Presence of the self; 5. Presence of the other; Part III. Hearing Absence: 6. Absence of the other; 7. Absence of the self; Part IV. Hearing Others: 8. Hearing another's voice; 9. Hearing oneself as another; Epilogue: 10. Hearing ourselves.
What is musical subjectivity? Drawing on philosophy and critical theory, Benedict Taylor investigates this concept in relation to Schumann.
Benedict Taylor is Reader in Music at the University of Edinburgh and editor of Music & Letters. His publications include The Melody of Time: Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era (2015) and, as editor, Rethinking Mendelssohn (2020) and The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism (2021).
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