Current Focus

Manos currently explores how the philosophy of music and its history can be an invaluable resource for musicians and a sustainable musical ecosystem.

See:

“Philosophers of Music: Imaginary Counselors for Musicians?” in Jeannette B. L. Knox, ed., The Arts in Philosophical Practice: Prospects, Perspectives and Practices, Bloomsbury, NY 2026, 179-199.

Past Project

2016-2018 Manos was Lise-Meitner Research Fellow and Principal Investigator of the interdisciplinary project Music as life-affirmation funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Host Institution: University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, I 14 (Aesthetics of Music).

The project resulted to two open-access collective volumes published at the series Studien zur Wertungsforschung of the Institute for Aesthetics of Music. You can read and download them for free here:

Musik und Lebensphilosophie

Life as an Aesthetic Idea of Music