Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Prelude: a paradox of the ineffable. Schopenhauer's deep copy ; The platonic solutions ; Four dialectical responses (after Nietzsche)
  • Bloch's tone. The tone ; The natural klang ; The expressive tone ; Bloch's magic rattle ; The tone's inner ineffability ; The event-forms ; A dialectical account of music history ; Utopian musical speech
  • Adorno's musical fracture. Adorno's tone ; Adorno's conception of history ; The tendenz des materials ; Music's language-like ineffability ; The immanent critique ; The paradox of Mahler's vernacular ; The curve of inconsistency
  • Interlude: Wittgenstein's silence
  • Jankelevitch's inconsistency. Bergson and the inconsistency of time ; The aporetic source of fidelity ; Charm ; Cosmic silence ; Unwoven dialectics
  • Deleuze and Guattari's rhythm. Deleuze's rhythm ; The rhythm of sense ; A structuralist quadrivium ; The rhythm of life ; Sonorous co-extensions
  • Conclusion: a paradox of the vernacular.