Current Focus

With a strong background in the philosophy of music, Manos explores ways in which philosophy of music can be a resource for a sustainable musical ecosystem.

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

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



  • Monograph

    Nietzsches Musikästhetik der Affekte, Freiburg,  Alber 2011 (Musikphilosophie Bd. 1).

    Reviews:

    Journal of Nietzsche Studies 43:1 (2012), 147-149 by J. M. Carvalho 

    Nietzscheforschung 19 (2012), 382-384 by Cathrin Nielsen

    Nietzsche-Studien 41 (2012), 482-488 by Christoph Landerer

    Κριτικά 13 (2013), 133-143 by Παύλος Χαιρόπουλος            

    Edited Volumes

    Musik und Lebensphilosophie, Wien/London/New York, Universal Edition, 2020 (Studien zur Wertungsforschung: 64).

    Reviews:

    Michael Pitz-Grewenig, magazin.classic.com18.03.2023

    Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 35 1 (2022), 84 by Yvonne Petitpierre

    Life as an Aesthetic Idea of Music, Wien/London/New York, Universal Edition, 2019 (Studien zur Wertungsforschung: 61)

    Reviews:

    Review: Life as an Aesthetic Idea of Music, Música Hodie 23 2023, e71633 by Luzia Aurora Rocha

    Polyphonia 35 (2020) by Maria Theofili

    Music & Letters 101:1 (2020) by Erik Wallrup]

  • ‍“Lively Arabesque: Between the Sublime and the Beautiful”, in Wilfing, Landerer, Wilfing-Albrecht, eds., Hanslick in Context. Perspectives on the Aesthetics, Musical Criticism, and Historical Setting of Eduard Hanslick,  Wien,  Hollitzer 2020 , 119-130

    ‍ “Zugabe: Lebensphilosophische Musikästhetik in Anwendung”, in Manos Perrakis, ed., Wien/London/New York, Universal Edition, 2020 (Studien zur Wertungsforschung, Bd. 64), 159–161

    ‍ Vorwort: Musik und ihre Bedeutung für die Lebensphilosophie”, in Manos Perrakis, ed., Wien/London/New York, Universal Edition, 2020 (Studien zur Wertungsforschung, Bd. 64), 7–9

    ‍“Philosophical Practice for Musicians. A Short Report on TOM-Tool”, Philosophical Practice 14.3. (2019), 2416–2419

    ‍ “Preface”, in Manos Perrakis, ed., Life as an Aesthetic Idea of Music, Wien/London/New York, Universal Edition, 2019 (Studien zur Wertungsforschung Bd. 61), 7-9

    ‍ “Nietzsche und der frühromantische Kritikbegriff”, in: Heit and Thorgeirsdottir (eds.): Nietzsche als Kritiker und Denker der Transformation, Berlin/Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2016,  73-80“

    Nietzsche und die Philosophische Praxis”, in: Gödde and Loukidelis (eds.): Nietzsche und die Lebenskunst, Stuttgart/Weimar, Metzler, 2016, 371-378

    ‍ “Shakespeare on Grief. Reading Richard II from the Perspective of a Philosophical Counselor”, Philosophical Practice 10.1. (2015), 1521-1529

    ‍“Nietzsches Scham des guten Rufs am exemplarischen Fall von Athos, Comte de la Fère”, in: Georg and Zittel. eds., Nietzsches Philosophie des Unbewußten  Berlin/Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2012,  281-286

    ‍“Music and Emotion: A Dynamic Concept of Peace”, in: Gregor and Spetschinsky, eds., Concerning Peace: New Perspectives on Utopia, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2010,  46-54

    ‍“Leben: Der Versuch, die Zeit musikalisch zu gestalten”, in: Trautsch and Springmann, eds., Festgabe für Volker Gerhardt , Berlin, Dunker & Humblot, 2009, 199-201

    ‍“Der ‘Süden der Musik’ als System interkulturellen Experimentierens”, in: Sommer, ed., Nietzsche – Philosoph der Kultur(en?, Berlin/New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2008, 255-262

    “Die intime Botschaft der Musik. Nietzsches Musizieren in drei Akten”, in: Magazin für Theologie und Ästhetik 53 (2008): https://www.theomag.de/53/mp1.htm

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  • ‍“Die Gefühlsmacht der Musik”, Interview with Doris Griesser (Der Standard, 28.11.2018)

    ‍“Shakespeare in Philosophical Practice”, Interview with Ran Lahav (2014)

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