Introduction
Friedrich Nietzsche’s interest in acoustics, auditory perception, and musical experience – while not pedagogical in the conventional sense – lead to some of the philosopher’s most trenchant critiques of institutional education and proposals for its reform. The most extended discussions of education are contemporaneous with his tenure at the University of Basel from 1869–1879. In works from subsequent years, focusing more generally on German culture and the quality of German scholarship, his observations are often framed in terms of acoustics and musical experience. And shortly before his collapse, Nietzsche’s acoustical thinking assumes a material form with his proposal to philosophize with a hammer.
Sources for Nietzsche’s Acoustics of Education
Many of Nietzsche’s early reflections on education depend on the appropriation, adaptation, and extension of the German word Stimmung. In the study of acoustics, Stimmungrefers to vibration, frequency modulation, and...
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Mosley, D.L. (2016). Nietzsche and Acoustics. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_464-1
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