For admirers of Gustav Mahler's masterpiece 8th Symphony, editor Elisabeth Kappel and the Studien zur Wertungsforschung present a compilation of essays, which discuss the great work in various contexts and approaches. Delve deep into the collective consciousness, as it reacts to Mahler's finest work. Paperback edition, 240 pages, 5½ x 8.

Kappel Elisabeth: Preface · Roman Zoltan: The 'Creative Spirit', Faust, and Mahler's Eight Symphony: From Medieval to Modern in 80 Minutes · Wildhagen Christian: It Must Have Something Cosmic about It: The Intellectual and Spiritual Universe of Mahler's Eight Symphony · Dorschel Andreas: Individualism for the Masses: Aesthetic Paradox in Mahler's Symphonic Thought · Barham Jeremy: 'A Time of Gifts': Mahler's Eight, Fassbinder's Cinema, and Musical Politics · Painter Karen: From Zionism to Assimilation: Theodor Herzl, Gustav Mahler, and the Aesthetics of Redemption · Krones Hartmut: Two Languages – One Symphony: Mahler's Eight · Kappel Elisabeth: A Single Tremendously Long and Wide Thought: The Orchestral Introduction to Part 2 of Mahler's Eight Symphony · Aringer Klaus: Technique and Aesthetics of Mahler's Large Orchestra · Deaville James: Goethes's Faust in the Austro-German Musical Imagination of the 19th Century · McClatchie Stephen: The Wagnerian Roots of Mahler's Eighth Symphony · Williamson John: Mahler, Pfitzner and the Relationship between Symphony and Cantata · Wright James: Building a New World: Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schönberg (ca. 1905–1911) · Korte Oliver: Macrocosm – Microcosm: About the Influence of Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony on the Work of Anton Webern · Revers Peter: A Work of Art of Higher Artistic Order: The Eighth as Mahler's 'Gesamtkunstwerk'