contexts, 34, 44, 64, 66, 145, 164–165, 170, 220, 223, 264, 278–279, 281, 283, 286n1, 316

contingency, 83, 148, 157, 238, 318, 320–323

continuity, 266–267, 269, 271–272

contradiction, xiii, 3, 5–6, 8–10, 16–17, 20, 35, 46, 75, 82, 91–93, 132, 141, 155, 164, 207, 212, 214, 235, 258, 266, 270, 274–275, 294, 314, 317, 326

convergent, 158–159, 186, 189, 191–193, 195, 197n12, 199n16, 219, 222, 246, 263, 268–269, 276, 303

Convergent epistemological realism, 189, 191–193, 222

Copernicus, 180, 183, 190–191, 201, 279

Copland, Aaron, 30, 37n3, 37n5, 60–61

correspondence, 99n15, 194, 245

creativity, x, 20, 27–28, 41–46, 52, 53n2, 74, 156, 169, 205, 212, 244, 291, 318, 322

Creon, 122, 125n23, 300

critical theory, xiii, 17, 77, 162, 164, 211, 219–220, 285, 295, 302, 329

critical thought, 162

cultural studies, 2, 17, 53n2, 77, 164, 167, 211, 219, 284–285

culture, x–xi, 1–2, 6, 11, 15, 21, 22n11, 23n5, 28, 63, 68, 76–77, 93, 105–106, 110, 114–115, 118, 120, 122–123, 126–127, 130, 135, 142, 145–146, 156–158, 160, 162, 166, 168, 170, 173, 187, 203–205, 207, 210, 212, 227–229, 239n4

culture (continued), 239n8, 240n15, 240n17, 240nn19–20, 243, 245, 251, 254, 257, 259n9, 260n14, 272, 274, 284, 286, 293, 300, 302, 307–308, 313–314, 319–321, 323, 326, 329, 331

Curie, Marie, 174, 201

cyber world, 290, 311n2

daemon, 143

Dahlhaus, Carl, 222, 260n12

Danto, Arthur, 53–54, 171, 246–247, 250–254, 259

Das Lied von der Erde,, 95, 100nn28–31

Das Rheingold,, 94

death, 5–6, 8, 13, 29, 33, 55, 68–69, 85, 89, 95–97, 116, 118, 125, 132, 135, 140, 143, 190, 299, 304, 311n9, 311n11

Debussy, Claude, 202–203

Denial of Death,, 8, 311n9

Der Gelbe Klang,, 230

Descartes, René, 57–59

Deus ex machina,, 142–143

developing variation, 233, 235

Dewey, John, 156, 172n2, 243

Dews, Peter, 85–87, 98nn9–12, 99

Dialectic of Enlightenment,, 270, 283–284, 286n7, 287n16, 324n1

Dichterliebe,, 51

diction, 27, 29–32, 36, 37n1, 42, 49, 73, 105, 107, 156, 305

Die Schöne Müllerin, x, 51

difference without domination, 88, 308–309, 320, 323, 326, 333

Dionysian, 36, 38, 94, 139–141, 143–145, 300–303, 305, 307, 318