The Metaphysics of Music
Singing is not to be understood as an aesthetic sweetener.
The Political Journey of Thomas Mann
by
Ed Simon
Posted on June 5, 2025
in THR Web Features
Image: Illustration for Death in Venice by Maurice Denis; photograph of Thomas Mann, Zürcher Museen.
Mann understood, almost too well, the allure of tradition and irrationalism, of the poetic and the mystical.