Schubert and philosophy
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I heard a commentator on NPR talking about Schubert’s “Unfinished,”
saying how much more autobiographical the symphony became with
Beethoven and Schubert. That’s why Hayden and other predecessors
were able to write so many more symphonies than Beethoven and
Schubert. There was so much more at stake with Beethoven and
Schubert. So much more was risked, put out there.
I then got to wondering if the same thing can be said to have
happened in philosophy with the romantics. But then it occurred to
me that philosophy has always been autobiographical “with much more
at stake,” at least in the tradition of thinking from Heraclitus
through Heidegger. This deeper personal investment shows itself on
this list in some powerful ways. That’s why the Jud character was
invented.
Allen
