Conference
Gustav Mahler’s Ultimate Questions -
14 May 2011
9.40 – 17.30
Het Muziektheater Amsterdam
The Questor Hero
The 20th Nexus Conference is devoted to Mahler’s heritage. Mahler was a God-seeker. We live after the death of God, in a godless world. What are the political, moral, and cultural consequences of that? Why did Mahler search for beauty, and how did he express this? How can we explain that on the one hand, Mahler is one of the great poets of suffering and of the tragedy of existence, and that on the other hand, he wrote such beautiful music? Does our longing for transcendental, absolute values offer a way out of the human tragedy, or is that a dangerous illusion?
Published in
Nexus 59
De laatste vragen van Gustav Mahler
Nexus 59
De laatste vragen van Gustav Mahler
Speakers
Iván Fischer
Yoel Gamzou
Mitchell Cohen
Constantin Floros
Allan Janik
George Klein
Claudio Magris
Katie Mitchell
Carl Niekerk
Nuria Schoenberg Nono
Michael Steinberg
Lewis Wolpert
Adam Zagajewski
Slavoj Žižek
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