Jack Boss

Handling Dissonance

Arts & Literature

“Chelle L. Stearns’s Handling Dissonance is a fascinating study of Schoenberg’s ‘aesthetic theology’ . . . Schoenberg’s understanding of unity—one that dissolves particularity in itself—is placed up against Gunton’s and Begbie’s concepts of unity that celebrate the particular and allow it to thrive. The book will be of value to students of music theory and philosophy as well as theology.”