mirrors, 7, 73, 82–83, 87, 132, 271, 281

modern, 54n4, 86, 116, 130, 142, 148, 155, 170, 190, 197, 228, 250, 257, 259–260, 264, 266–269, 271–273, 275–277, 279, 283, 285, 286n1, 286n6, 292, 304, 316, 334n1

modernist, 10–11, 16, 53, 66, 142, 168, 251–253, 259nn10–11, 260n13, 266–270, 276, 278, 316

“Modernist Painting,”, 252–253, 259nn10–11

monody, 108, 144

Monteverdi, Claudio, 111, 113

Moore, Henry, 63

Morpheus, 91–93

Mozart, W. A., 44, 60–61, 202, 209

musik?,, 101, 113, 118, 140

myth, 114–115, 119, 125nn14–15, 161, 198, 213

Nagasaki, 65

The Name of the Rose,, 79, 98n1, 98n8

NATS, xvi, 66–67, 248–249, 251

nature, 4, 17, 20, 23n3, 27, 42, 46, 50, 53–54, 58, 68–69, 81, 83–85, 88, 90–92, 95–96, 98, 104, 106, 112, 117, 126–127, 130, 132–133, 138, 149, 161, 163, 165, 167–168, 174–175, 178, 182, 185–187, 189, 194, 196, 197n10, 201, 204–206, 208, 210, 227, 230–232, 234, 245–247, 249, 256, 272, 283–284, 286, 292, 302, 311, 314, 317, 330

Nazi, 131

Neo, 91–93, 258

neo-romantic, 11–12

New Comedy, 12, 142–143

Newton, Sir Isaac, 175–176, 188, 201–202, 226, 240

Nietzsche, Friedrich, vi, 39, 50, 55nn8–9, 63, 69n2, 77, 99n27, 105–107, 123, 124nn3–4, 124n6, 126n28, 127n35, 129–149, 150n1, 150n3, 150n11–13, 150n17–19, 151n25, 156, 172n3, 258, 260n17, 263, 270, 279, 281, 287, 295, 303, 311, 315, 325, 330

nomen,, 210

nominalism, 115, 210

nondiscursive, 229

nonharmonic tones, 234–235

The Norton Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism,, 16

Norton, Richard, 223–224, 239n4, 239n8, 240n15

Ockham, William, 115

Ode to a Nightingale,, 99n23

Oedipus, 116, 122, 125n24, 264, 295–300, 310, 311n8, 319–320

Oedipus Rex,, 295, 311n8

On the Future of History,, 218, 239n2, 166, 287n11

ontological freedom, 290

opacity, 162, 164, 238, 250, 253

opaque, 66, 164, 253, 274, 318, 332

optimism, 5, 130–131, 157, 168–169, 173, 244, 258, 263, 267, 270, 287n12

Paracelsus, 190

passion, 5, 45, 256, 314

Peloponnesian Wars, 117

Penderecki, Krzysztof, 65

perihelion, 208, 225–226