Philosophy: aesthetics Books
Fordham University Press Shattering Biopolitics Militant Listening and
Book SynopsisFailures to listen or mishearings can be a matter of life and death. Shattering Biopolitics elaborates the intimate and complex relation between life and sound in philosophy, political theory, and sound-art.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations | ix Prologue | 1 1 Shatter | 7 Excursus 1: Calculation and Stricture in Mendi + Keith Obadike’s Numbers Station | 38 2 The Rhythm of Life | 49 Excursus 2: Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Phonetic Border-Crossings | 91 3 Mouth(piece) | 100 Excursus 3: Sharon Hayes’s Addresses | 145 4 A Use of Ears | 158 Excursus 4: The Drive to Listen in Ultra-red’s Militant Sound Investigations | 191 Acknowledgments | 207 Notes | 209 Selected Bibliography | 233 Index | 243
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Edinburgh University Press Raymond Bellour
Book SynopsisProviding a clear, systematic account of the evolution of Bellour's thought on the nature of cinematic representation, the impact of digital technology and the response of the spectator, this is an essential guide to the work of a major contemporary thinker.
£27.54
Oxford University Press Art Scents
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Oxford University Press Inc The Philosophical Imagination
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Classics in Western Philosophy of Art: Major
Book SynopsisIn this synthetic introduction to the history of the philosophy of art, Noël Carroll elucidates and analyzes selected writings on art by Plato, Aristotle, Hutcheson, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Tolstoy, and Bell. Carroll’s narrative tracks developments between major positions in philosophy of art, ranging from the idea that art is unavoidably embedded in society to the evolution of the notion that art is autonomous ("art for art’s sake"), thereby setting the stage for continuing debates in the philosophy of art.Presupposing no prior background, and useful on its own or accompanying the reading of primary works, Classics in Western Philosophy of Art is ideal as a text for introductory undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy of art and aesthetics, or for anyone interested in learning about the origin of some of our most fundamental conceptions of art in the Western tradition.Trade Review"Indispensable turn-by-turn directions for those navigating the ideas of nine philosophers who set the stage for thinking about art and society. Clear and comprehensive, Noël Carroll is the perfect guide to the history of aesthetics."—Dominic McIver Lopes, University of British Columbia"Carroll’s Classics in Western Philosophy of Art is a masterful series of commentaries on nine classical writings on art by philosophers in the Western tradition—learned and penetrating in exegesis, equally penetrating in critique. It’s not just one philosopher after another. Carroll takes note of what later writers say, explicitly or implicitly, about earlier writers, and imagines what those earlier writers might have said in response. He is host to a conversation. How I wish these commentaries had been available when I was still teaching philosophy of art! I would have been spared my own exegetical labors over these often-difficult texts, and my teaching would have been immeasurably improved."—Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University
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Oxford University Press Inc Learning to Look
Book SynopsisLearning to Look is a wandering journey through the nature of art - and the ways it can transform us, if we let it. Author of Infinite Baseball, Alva Noë, presents a collection of short, stimulating essays that explore how we experience art and what it means to be an observer. Experiencing art - letting it do its work on us - takes thought, attention, and focus. It requires creation, even from the beholder. And it is in this process of confrontation and reorganization that artworks can lead us to remake ourselves. Ranging far and wide, from Pina Bausch to Robocop, from Bob Dylan to Vermeer, Noë uses encounters with specific artworks to gain entry into a world of fascinating issues - like how philosophy and science are represented in film; what evolutionary biology says about art; or the role of relics, fakes, and copies in our experience of a work. The essays in Learning to Look are short, accessible, and personal. Each one arises out of an art encounter - in a museum, listening to records, or going to a concert. Each essay stands on its own, but taken together, they form an intimate picture of our relationship with art. Carefully articulating the experience of each of these encounters, Noë proposes that, like philosophy, art is a sort of technology for understanding ourselves. Put simply, art is an opportunity for us to enact ourselves anew.Table of ContentsPreface Encounters 1 Soup is an anagram of opus 2 I am sitting in a room 3 40 speakers in a room 4 Two left hands 5 Rock art 6 The power of performance 7 Cheap thrills at the Whitney 8 Whaling with Turner 9 Take my breath away 10 Speak, draw, dance 11 Beach beasts on the move 11 Making the work work 13 Irrational man 14 RoboCop's philosophers 15 Pointing the way to liberation, in Star Trek: Voyager 16 An Awkward Synthesis Pictures 17 The anatomy lesson 18 The importance of being dressed 19 The art of the brain 20 Faces and masks 21 The philosophical eye 22 The camera and the dance 23 Why are 3-D movies so bad? 24 The myth of 3-D immersion 25 Storying telling and the
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Lexington Books The Aesthetics of Autonomy
Book SynopsisThe Aesthetics of Autonomy: Ricoeur and Sartre on Emancipation, Authenticity, and Selfhood argues that, despite their differences, Sartre and Ricoeur have a similar goal. While they are both anti-essentialists, they nevertheless advocate for the notions of selfhood and autonomy. Autonomy, for them, is the end result of an aesthetic path. An identity, at the individual or collective level, is created by weaving together contingent threads of the given. In other words, identity is a narrative construct. The first two chapters focus on the respective methods of Sartre and Ricoeur. Despite their different emphases, Farhang Erfani argues that they have a similar dialectical method, between the situation and our ability to surpass it for Sartre, and between sedimentation and innovation for Ricoeur. The third chapter brings them together and shows how they can complement each other in building a narrative identity at the individual level; Ricoeur is helpful in appreciating Sartrean notions ofTrade ReviewDr. Erfani’s book on Sartre and Ricœur is a welcome re-reading, together, of two relatively neglected thinkers, with a view of appropriating what is most valuable in each for understanding the challenges posed by globalization to the newly ‘fragile’ subjects of an increasingly complex, globalized world. It will appeal to those individuals who are nevertheless interested in creatively rescuing a sense of autonomy and selfhood—an aesthetic path to an autonomous self—from oblivion at a time when heteronomy appears to be increasingly the rule in various domains. With insight and humour, Erfani demonstrates that these thinkers’ conceptions of imagination and creativity, together with a sensitivity for the constitutive role of narrative for individual subjects, can revitalize our own floundering attempts to rise above the restrictions of the nation state while still clinging to the protection it supposedly affords one from global, multi-national corporate power. -- Bert Olivier, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Can the Revolutionary Agent Ski? On Sartre's Methodology Chapter 2. Dialectics of Sedimentation and Innovation: On Ricœur's Methodology Chapter 3. Giving Style to One's Life: Existentialist Narrative Ethics Chapter 4. From Ideology to Dark Utopia Conclusion: "Imagine There's No Countries"
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Cornell University Press The Poetics of Perspective
Book SynopsisPerspective has been a divided subject, orphaned among various disciplines from philosophy to gardening. In the first book to bring together recent thinking on perspective from such fields as art history, literary theory, aesthetics, psychology, and the history of mathematics, James Elkins leads us to a new understanding of how we talk about...Trade ReviewI have rarely read a book as illuminating as this.... With great tact and inventiveness, Elkins offers two basic correctives to what has been taken as the foundational procedure underlying Italian Renaissance painting and, by extension, Renaissance culture: (1) Perspective was referred to not in the singular but in the plural—not a perspective, but perspectives; and (2) it was not about drawing a unified pictorial space, but about drawing objects—not a way of unifying a picture, but an often playful fashioning of the objects in a picture. -- Svetlana Alpers * Key Reporter *
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Fat
Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Public enemy. Crucial macronutrient. Health risk. Punchline. Moneymaker. Epidemic. Sexual fetish. Moral failing. Necessary bodily organ. Conveyor of flavor. Freak-show spectacle. Never mind the stereotype, fat is never sedentary: its definitions, identities, and meanings are manifold and in constant motion. Demonized in medicine and public policy, adored by chefs and nutritional faddists (and let's face it, most of us who eat), simultaneously desired and abhorred when it comes to sex, and continually courted by a multi-billion-dollar fitness and weight-loss industry, for so many people fat is ironically nothing more than an insult or a state of despair. In Hanne Blank''s Fat we find fat as state, as possession, as metaphor, as symptom, as object of desire, intellectual and carnal. Here, feeling fat and literal fat merge, blurring the boundaries and infusing one anotherTrade ReviewThroughout Fat, Blank beautifully disrupts and destabilizes the notion of fat and, in doing so, challenged me to think deeper about the category as a whole. * Fat Studies *Hanne Blank's characteristically honest, creative, wickedly funny, and sharply insightful voice comes through on every page of this eminently readable book. Blank reveals fat as polysemic, at once mundane and hidden, sexually charged, and socially vexed. Fat is a scholarly ethnography of an everyday object that manages to be a genuine page-turner. * Quill Rebecca Kukla, Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, USA *Table of ContentsFrontispiece 1. Fact 2. Friend 3. Foe 4. Fetish 5. Figure Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Fashion Seductive Play
Book SynopsisEugen Fink (1905-1975) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg, Germany.Stefano Marino is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Bologna, Italy.Giovanni Matteucci is Full Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Bologna, Italy.Trade ReviewThrough a detailed and in-depth contextualization of Fink’s thought, [Marino and Matteucci] succeed in highlighting its topicality by comprehensively outlining his discourse on fashion as a philosophical question, being highly controversial today. * Phenomenological Reviews *An important historical document of fashion theory, revealing the deep ambiguities and dialectics that the allegedly superficial phenomenon of fashion shares with our fundamental human condition. * Richard Shusterman, author of Thinking through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics *Essential reading for anyone interested in recovering the philosophical depth of appearances. This compelling work, beautifully translated alongside a superb new Introduction, is here rediscovered in its first English edition. * Gwen Grewal, The New School, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Stefano Marino and Giovanni Matteucci …So That the Meaning is Evident (Introduction), by Walter Spengler 1. The Magical Powers of Fashion 2. The Social Phenomenon of Fashion 3. Fashion – The Wish to Be Always Different 4. Appeal and Performance of Fashion 5. Fashion Has Many Faces 6. Leadership or Seduction in Fashion 7. Is Fashion Existentially Justified? Glossary Index of names
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The 87 Press Why so few women on the street at night
Book Synopsis"Why so few women on the street at night is another brilliant offering from the87press." –Bhanu KapilA searing and multi-form debut from Palestinian human rights activist and theorist Sarona Abuaker. Complete with images from performance pieces, essays, fragments of theory and notebooks, these are poems that engage the reader in thinking about liberation.For Fans of: Anna Mendelssohn, Ghassan Kanafani, Mira Mattar, Adania Shibli.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Musical Performance A Philosophical Study
Book SynopsisThis radical new evaluation of music making in the past and future will be essential reading for students of aesthetics, the philosophy of music, as well as musicologists and performance specialists.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I Central aspects of performance 1 A model of musical performance 2 Skills and Guilds PART II Challenges to the model 3 Performances and musical works 4 Computers, ready-mades, and artistic agency 5 Experiments with musical agency 6 Artists, programs, and performance
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Ohio University Press The Madness of Vision
Book SynopsisIn The Madness of Vision, Buci-Glucksmann asserts the important of embodied vision in nine studies of paintings, sculptures, and images. She integrates the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics to make the case for the pervasive influence of the baroque.
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Fordham University Press The Normative Thought of Charles S Peirce
Book SynopsisA collection of eleven essays on the moral philosophy of the American Polymath Charles S. Peirce (1839–1914). The essays cover the three normative sciences that Peirce distinguishes (esthetics, ethics, and logic), and their relation to metaphysics.Trade Review"The volume makes a timely contribution to current Peirce scholarship." -- -Shannon Dea University of Waterloo "This is an outstanding work of scholarship, an important contribution to the now significant body of secondary literature devoted to the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce. The intellectual range of the book is truly impressive, and yet the attention to Peirce's realism throughout supplies an important thread of continuity." -- -Michael L. Raposa Lehigh University "These are all sophisticated philosophical essays devoted, some primarily to the interpretation and others to the extension of, the ideas of one of America's most difficult thinkers." -- -Michael L. Raposa Lehigh University
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc On The Musically Beautiful
Book SynopsisOffers insights into both the disciplines of music and philosophy.Trade ReviewLike Hanslick, Professor Payzant is both musician and philosopher; and he has brought the knowledge and insights of both disciplines to this large undertaking. --Gordon Epperson, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Color for Philosophers
Book SynopsisAwarded the 1986 Johnsonian Prize in Philosophy. This work on colour features a chapter, 'Further Thoughts: 1993', in which the author revisits the dispute between colour objectivists and subjectivists from the perspective of the ecology, genetics, and evolution of colour vision.Trade ReviewMuch the best philosophically orientated book about colour that has been written. . . . It has none of the philosophical crudity which mars scientific accounts of colour, and none of the scientific ignorance which makes so many philosophical accounts of colour worthless or worse. . . . Time and again I found myself unexpectedly convinced at a point whose opposite I had believed. I have in mind particularly the later sections on ‘Other colours, other minds’, language foci, and ‘boundaries and indeterminacy’. It is annoying, but also exhilarating, to be relieved of some stubborn and treasured opinions. --Jonathan Westphal, Mind
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Reconceptions in Philosophy and Other Arts and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Covering such diverse topics as architecture, epistemology, art, literature, and music, the book is firmly held together by a unique vision. . . a brilliant work of destruction. All certainty seems to disappear under Goodman and Elgin's rigorous scrutiny. Rightness, adoption, and understanding are substituted for truth, certainty, and knowledge, without yielding to terminal scepticism or irresponsible relativism. The students of Goodman and Elgin know less but understand more." --Carl Rudbeck, Svenska Dagbladt"The idea that knowledge and truth are not as absolutely crucial as we have thought is absolutely crucial: it is right." --Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Guide to Aesthetics
Book SynopsisPresents the defense of the intuitive nature of art in Western philosophical thought.
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Guide to Aesthetics
Book Synopsis A reprint of the Library of Liberal Arts edition of 1965. Croce's Guide presents one of the clearest and strongest defenses of the intuitive nature of art in Western philosophical thought.
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThis second edition features a new 48-page Afterword--1980 updating Professor Beardsley's classic work.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Aesthetics and the Arts
Book SynopsisThe psychology of aesthetics and the arts is dedicated to the study of our experiences of the visual arts, music, literature, film, performances, architecture and design; our experiences of beauty and ugliness; our preferences and dislikes; and our everyday perceptions of things in our world. The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Aesthetics and the Arts is a foundational volume presenting an overview of the key concepts and theories of the discipline where readers can learn about the questions that are being asked and become acquainted with the perspectives and methodologies used to address them. The psychology of aesthetics and the arts is one of the oldest areas of psychology but it is also one of the fastest growing and most exciting areas. This is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook featuring essays from some of the most respected scholars in the field.Trade Review'This book is a significant contribution to furthering our understanding about the importance and value of aesthetics within different art forms and contexts. It has cross-disciplinary appeal and helps to promote both theoretical development and applied research, while opening the study of aesthetics to a broader audience.' Paul M. Camic, Salomons Centre for Applied Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent'This volume is impressive in both its breadth and depth. I work in this area, yet I learned something from each and every chapter about the psychology of aesthetics and art, and - perhaps more importantly - how aesthetics and art contribute to the human condition. This book will be kept on my desk so I can have easy access to it!' Jonathan Plucker, Raymond Neag Professor of Education, University of Connecticut'This volume brings together important scholarship and groundbreaking methodological approaches for understanding the fundamental question of how and why art moves us. Although an individual's experience of art is inherently subjective, these collected essays draw on research in psychology and aesthetics to bring new insights to a topic that historically many scholars in the field had considered too indefinable to analyze or quantify.' Kathryn Potts, Helena Rubinstein Chair of Education, Whitney Museum of American ArtTable of ContentsPart I. Concepts, Theories and Methods: 1. Introduction by the editors Jeffrey K. Smith and Pablo P. L. Tinio; 2. Empirical aesthetics: hindsight and foresight Oshin Vartanian; 3. Philosophy of art and empirical aesthetics: resistance and rapprochement William P. Seeley; 4. Theoretical foundations for an empirical aesthetics Gerald C. Cupchik; 5. Aesthetics assessment Aaron Kozbelt and James C. Kaufman; Part II. Perspectives and Approaches to Art and Aesthetics: 6. Beyond perception: information processing approaches to art appreciation Helmut Leder; 7. Psychodynamics and the arts Pavel Machotka; 8. Evolutionary approaches to art and aesthetics Marcos Nadal and Gerardo Gómez-Puerto; 9. The walls do speak: psychological aesthetics and the museum experience Pablo P. L. Tinio, Jeffrey K. Smith and Lisa F. Smith; Part III. Objects and Media: 10. Empirical investigation of the elements of composition in paintings: a painting as stimulus Paul J. Locher; 11. 'Mute, motionless, variegated rectangles': aesthetics and photography I. C. McManus and Katharina Stöver; 12. Aesthetic responses to design: a battle of impulses Paul Hekkert; 13. From music perception to an integrative framework for the psychology of aesthetics Stefan Koelsch; 14. Theater and dance: another pathway to understanding human nature Thalia R. Goldstein and Rebecca Yasskin; 15. Arts education, academic achievement and cognitive ability Swathi Swaminathan and E. Glenn Schellenberg; 16. Aesthetics and the built environment: no painting or musical piece can compare Andréa Livi Smith; 17. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest one of all? Influencing factors and effects of facial attractiveness Gernot Gerger and Helmut Leder; 18. An aesthetics of literary fiction David Carr; Part IV. Contemporary Issues and Debates: 19. Neuroaesthetics: descriptive and experimental approaches Anjan Chatterjee; 20. How emotions shape aesthetic experiences Stefano Mastandrea; 21. Unusual aesthetic states Emily C. Nusbaum and Paul J. Silvia; 22. Personality and aesthetic experiences Viren Swami and Adrian Furnham; 23. Hokusai and Fuji: cognition, convention and pictorial invention in Japanese pictorial arts David Bell; Part V. Pulling it All Together: 24. And all that jazz: rigour and relevance in the psychology of aesthetics and the arts Pablo P. L. Tinio and Jeffrey K. Smith.
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Cambridge University Press Interpreting Bergson
Book SynopsisBergson was a pre-eminent European philosopher of the early twentieth century and his work covers all major branches of philosophy. This volume of essays is the first collection in twenty years in English to address the whole of Bergson''s philosophy, including his metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of life, aesthetics, ethics, social and political thought, and religion. The essays explore Bergson''s influence on a number of different fields, and also extend his thought to pressing issues of our time, including philosophy as a way of life, inclusion and exclusion in politics, ecology, the philosophy of race and discrimination, and religion and its enduring appeal. The volume will be valuable for all who are interested in this important thinker and his continuing relevance.Trade Review'This collection presents new and promising interpretations of Henri Bergson, revealing the reach of his thought into political science, sociology, aesthetics, and religious studies. Academic readers across the humanities and social sciences will find them accessible and provocative.' Michael Kelly, University of San Diego'In its choice of the most innovative topics in research on Bergson, this book presents an original and at the same time very rich spectrum of the last twenty years of research … Even though they draw on the most canonical texts, the various contributions present highly original interpretations of Bergson's oeuvre and highlight its enduring fertility.' Société des Amis de Bergson Newsletter'This collection is extremely thought-provoking and an excellent resource for scholars as well as students already familiar with his work.' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews'Critical Essays is an extraordinary contribution to scholarship on Bergson and the history of philosophy and science.' John R. Bagby, MetascienceTable of ContentsIntroduction Alexandre Lefebvre and Nils F. Schott; 1. Bergson's theory of truth Arnaud François; 2. What was 'serious philosophy' for the young Bergson? Giuseppe Bianco; 3. Bergson and naturalism Stéphane Madelrieux; 4. Bergson on the true intellect Leonard Lawlor; 5. Bergson's philosophy of art Mark Sinclair; 6. Bergson, time, and philosophies of life Suzanne Guerlac; 7. Bergson and philosophy as a way of life Keith Ansell-Pearson; 8. Bergson and social theory Alexandre Lefebvre and Melanie White; 9. Bergson and political theory Richard Vernon; 10. Bergson, colonialism, and race Mark Westmoreland; 11. Bergson's philosophy of religion Nils F. Schott.
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Broadview Press Ltd The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: The Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThis book explores the aesthetics of the objects and environments we encounter in daily life. Thomas Leddy stresses the close relationship between everyday aesthetics and the aesthetics of art, but places special emphasis on neglected aesthetic terms such as ‘neat,’ ‘messy,’ ‘pretty,’ ‘lovely,’ ‘cute,’ and ‘pleasant.’ The author advances a general theory of aesthetic experience that can account for our appreciation of art, nature, and the everyday.Trade Review“Thomas Leddy offers a comprehensive and compelling treatment of everyday aesthetics, discussing a wide variety of historical and contemporary sources while putting forward an interesting new theory of what it is to have an aesthetic experience. This engaging book is suitable for students, scholars, and anyone wishing to enrich their experience of everyday life.” — Sherri Irvin, University of Oklahoma“The Extraordinary in the Ordinary is a significant contribution to the newly important field of everyday aesthetics. The book provides an excellent critical overview of work in this field to date, but more importantly breaks new ground by extending our understanding of aesthetic experience and of the properties we encounter in that experience.” — Robert Stecker, Central Michigan University“Discussion of everyday aesthetics has been gaining momentum in recent years, and as well as developing his own theory of everyday aesthetics and of aesthetic experience more broadly construed, Leddy has produced an invaluable reflective consolidation of the work of major contributors to the discipline, past and present.” — Christopher Dowling, Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: The Domain of Everyday AestheticsChapter 1: The Nature of Everyday AestheticsChapter 2: Aesthetic Experience and Aesthetic PropertiesChapter 3: Everyday Aesthetics and the EnvironmentPart II: A Theory of Everyday AestheticsChapter 4: Aesthetic Experience as Experience of Objects with AuraChapter 5: A Bestiary of Aesthetic Terms for Everyday ContextsChapter 6: Criticisms Actual and PossibleChapter 7: Everyday Surface Aesthetic QualitiesChapter 8: Everyday Aesthetics and the SublimeConclusionIndex
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Broadview Press Ltd Plain Aesthetics: A Common Sense Approach to
Book SynopsisPlain Aesthetics is an introduction to philosophical aesthetics and the philosophy of art written for all audiences. While students studying philosophy will find it informative, it is specifically constructed to be accessible to anyone, even those with no background in philosophy. It contains no jargon or technical language, except where such terms are defined at their point of use. Philosophers and theorists are discussed only where appropriate, and their views explained in context. Plain Aesthetics is written as a conversation between the author and the reader, and employs a great many examples of fascinating and influential artworks. Images and other works are presented to the reader both within the text and through an innovative interactive system. This book makes aesthetics accessible to everyone.Table of ContentsPrologueChapter One: What is Aesthetics? Why Aesthetics? What is “Aesthetics”? Is Aesthetics About Answering a “Why” Question? Is Aesthetics Philosophy? Is Aesthetics About How the World is Represented to Us? Is Aesthetics About How We Associate One Thing with Another? Do All Aesthetic Experiences have an Emotional Dimension? If Aesthetics is About How We Directly and Immediately Sense the World, Does Context Matter? Is “Aesthetic” a Noun or an Adjective? Suggested Readings and Discussion Suggestions Chapter Two: What is an Aesthetic Property? What Are Some Examples of Aesthetic Properties? Is There a Difference Between Beauty and Aesthetic Goodness? Are Aesthetic Properties Matters of Fact or Matters of Value? Are Aesthetic Properties Literal or Metaphorical? Are They Real or Not Real? Are Aesthetic Properties Properties of Objects or of Experiences? Do Aesthetic Properties Go Beyond Merely the Perceptual? How Are Aesthetic Properties Relative to Time, Place, and Culture? Is the Function of an Object an Aesthetic Property? Suggested Readings and Discussion Suggestions Chapter Three: What is an Aesthetic Object? Are Aesthetic Objects Always Aesthetic Objects? What is the Difference between an Aesthetic Object and an Art Object? What Makes an Object (or Event) a Work of Art? Is Art Imitation? Is Art Expression? Are All Works of Art Aesthetically Appreciable? Is it Possible to Define Art at All? Can We Define Art in Historical or Social Scientific Terms? Why Define Art? What Are the Different Artforms? Should We Collect Art? Suggested Readings and Discussion Suggestion Chapter Four: What is an Aesthetic Experience? What Makes an Experience Aesthetic? What Features Typify Aesthetic Experiences? Can an Experience be Partly Aesthetic? What is the Role of the Experiencer in Having an Aesthetic Experience? What Features of Aesthetic Experiences are Unique to Experiencers? Are All Aesthetic Experiences Positive? Are All Aesthetic Experiences Moral? Suggested Readings and Discussion Suggestions Chapter Five: What Roles Do Perspective and Culture Play? What is Feminist Aesthetics? What is the Role of Culture? What is the Origin of the Museum? Has the West Become More Secular About Art? What Role Does Resource Availability Play in Art? What Are Some Signature Elements of Ancient Egyptian Aesthetics? What Are Some Signature Elements of Japanese Aesthetics? What Are Some Signature Elements of Islamic Aesthetics? Suggested Readings and Discussion Suggestions Chapter Six: What Makes One Aesthetic Object or Experience Better Than Another? In Aesthetic Evaluation, Are We Focused on Objects or on Experiences? Can One Judgment Be Better Than Another? What Does it Mean to Call a Judgment “Object-Focused”? What Does It Mean to Call a Judgment “Subject-Focused”? How Should We Evaluate Art and/or Aesthetic Objects? What Are the Roles of Art Criticism and Art Critics in Aesthetic Evaluation? How Is Taste Involved in Aesthetic Evaluation? Can Taste Be Developed? How Do We Account for Taste Differences in Aesthetic Evaluation? Suggested Readings and Discussion Suggestions Chapter Seven: How Do I Know What a Work of Art Means? What Does It Mean for a Work of Art to “Mean”? Why Is the Meaning of a Work of Art Important? If Works of Art are Expressions of Artists, Isn’t the Meaning What the Artist Says It Is? Can a Work of Art Have More Than One Meaning? If a Work of Art Can Have More Than One Meaning, Which One Is Correct? Can Aesthetic Objects That Are Not Artworks Have Meanings? Suggested Readings and Discussion Suggestions Chapter Eight: What is the Relationship Between Aesthetics and Ethics? Should Ethics Be Relevant to Aesthetics? Ethically Relevant Art: Some Examples What Should be done about Immoral Art? Offensive Content When Should Censorship Be Practiced? Who Should Censor? Can Aesthetics Teach Morality? Suggested Readings and Discussion Suggestions
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Cosmic Passion for the Aesthetics
Book SynopsisIn this book, the authors present current research in the study of Cosmic Passion for the Aesthetic. It engages arts from different tradition, showing their cultural contexts and discloses dimensions of awareness that transgress the characteristics of art works. This book delves into the deeper meaning of art, and shows how various cultures attempt to suppress other cultures and their arts, and how the suppressed reappear and reassert themselves in new contexts. It travels through different conceptions, speculations, definitions and portrays how the aesthetic, the expressive, that is not identical with the characteristics of an art work, is what all art works attempt to capture. The aesthetic encompasses the passionate dimension which is not limited or reducible to anything -- it is cosmic. The latter is disclosed by the aesthetic passion that is most apparent in comparative studies of arts, above all through examining the art of India, the text visually captures the aesthetic, cosmic passion. In addition, it questions what is aesthetic value, judgements on art, the authors draw on how the depictions of the cosmic in art can assume a way of understanding specific interpretation of space, time and movement prior to any theological, mythical, theoretical or even scientific explanations and portray a flow of sensuous envelopment which resonates with cosmic passion. This book would interest not only artists, but students of cultures and comparative civilisations, and indeed for those who are interested in the ways that cosmic awareness has been and is being explicated in civilisations.
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Essays on Beauty and the Arts
Book SynopsisBernard Bolzano’s (1781–1848) writings in aesthetics are clear, concise, and explicit about method. Provocative and revisionary, they champion broad views of beauty, the arts, and their social function. Dominic McIver Lopes's introductory materials place Bolzano's essays in context, give them a new interpretation, and map out how to teach them, in full or in part, in a variety of courses.Trade Review"In two eminently teachable essays—clear, controversial, methodologically acute—Bolzano recasts a broadly Kantian aesthetics, connecting beauty to intellectual achievement, education, and art practice. Immensely helpful guidance, for scholars and students, is provided by the editorial materials: translation notes, an elegant theoretical and contextual Introduction of Bolzano and the text, and a forcefully argued Appendix detailing Bolzano’s criticisms of Kant’s aesthetics." —Rachel Zuckert, Northwestern University"An exciting arrival for anyone interested in fresh perspectives on central debates in aesthetics and its history. Lopes gives a lively and efficient overview of Bolzano's life and historical context, and then provides a short, engaging sketch of how the conceptions of beauty and art that Bolzano develops in these essays might compare (and contrast) with leading positions in classical and contemporary aesthetics. Bolzano’s essays themselves are especially exemplary of his philosophical and writerly virtues. Both the translation and Lopes’s interpretive commentary make for great additions to the pedagogical and scholarly resources in aesthetics and the philosophy of the arts, and the whole volume is a welcome and important contribution for anyone interested in the rich legacies of modern German philosophy." —Clinton Tolley, University of California San Diego
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Sydney University Press Art and Reality: John Anderson on Literature and
Book SynopsisArt and Reality is a collection of general theoretical reflections and particular critical studies, in which John Anderson asserts the essential role of art and aesthetics in intellectual life. Rejecting the notion that artistic appreciation is simply a matter of spontaneous response or 'personal taste', Anderson argues that genuine criticism requires the application of general aesthetic principles and an awareness of the relationship between art and nature. In exploring how beauty is experienced and defined, he considers a wide range of authors, from Homer to Joyce, Melville to Dostoevsky, Shakespeare to Shaw. He outlines his underlying theory of aesthetics and offers commentary on some key controversies of his day, including psychoanalytic criticism, the Ern Malley hoax, and the censorship of Ulysses in Australia.With characteristic rigor and originality, Anderson proposes a philosophical way of approaching works of art, one which can lead us to a more meaningful and thoughtful engagement with literature.Table of ContentsForeword by Janet C. Anderson Introduction by Graham Cullum and Kimon Lycos 1. Some questions in aesthetics2. Biography3. Classicism versus romanticism4. Romanticism and classicism5. Psycho-analysis and romanticism6. The comic7. The nature of poetry8. Poetry and society9. Art and morality10. Ulysses11. The banning of Ulysses12. James Joyce13. James Joyce: Finnegans Wake14. Exiles15. The Applecart16. George Bernard Shaw17. The Perfect Wagnerite18. Emperor and Galilean19. Kenneth Grahame20. Kipling21. George Meredith22. The Enormous Room23. H.G. Wells24. Thomas Love Peacock25. Herman Melville26. Feodor Dostoevsky27. R.H. Benson28. The detective story29. Orage and the New Age circle30. Music and emotion31. Art and morals32. Australian culture33. Literature and life34. Literary criticism35. Further questions in aesthetics: beautyNotesIndex
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Verso Books Sensoria: Thinkers for the Twentieth-first
Book SynopsisAs we face the compounded crises of late capitalism, environmental catastrophe and technological transformation, who are the thinkers and the ideas who will allow us to understand the world we live in? McKenzie Wark surveys three areas at the cutting edge of current critical thinking: design, environment, technology and introduces us to the thinking of nineteen major writers. Each chapter is a concise account of an individual thinker, providing useful context and connections to the work of the others. The authors include: Sianne Ngai, Kodwo Eshun, Lisa Nakamura, Hito Steyerl, Yves Citton, Randy Martin, Jackie Wang, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Achille Mbembe, Deborah Danowich and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Eyal Weizman, Cory Doctorow, Benjamin Bratton, Tiziana Terranova, Keller Easterling, Jussi Parikka.Wark argues that we are too often told that expertise is obtained by specialisation. Sensoria connects the themes and arguments across intellectual silos. They explore the edges of disciplines to show how we might know the world: through the study of culture, the different notions of how we create such things, and the impact that the machines that we devise have had upon us. The book is a vital and timely introduction to the future both as a warning but also as a road map on how we might find our way out of the current crisis.Trade ReviewA provocative and compelling exploration of our digital world as it crashes towards ecological disaster. Counter-intuitive, insightful, and imaginative, Capital is Dead is a timely reminder that there are things worse than capitalism - and we may just be living through them -- Nick Snricek, co-author of Inventing the Future * [in praise of Capital is Dead] *a playbook for the Anthropocene, a set of moves and strategies extracted from an unexpected canon of texts formed by a mash-up of the Soviet avant-garde and the Californian high-tech imaginary. * Radical Philosophy [in praise of Molecular Red] *A very imaginative, historically smart, politically generative thesis . that I think we urgently need. -- Donna Haraway, author of A Cyborg Manifesto * [in praise of Molecular Red] *A wonderful book . informative and moving . a great recovery of an instructive life and literary effort. The book makes the case for a kind of political vision and action we need to recognize and enact. A true pleasure to read. -- Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars Trilogy * [in praise of Molecular Red] *Wark is a fine aphorist ... Playful, angry, depressed, celebratory, this is a book for anyone not convinced that there is no alternative to the way we live now. -- Observer * [In Praise of The Beach Beneath the Streets] *
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Lars Muller Publishers Phenotypes / Limited Forms
Book SynopsisThis book is an extension of the interactive installation Phenotypes/Limited Forms. The installation encourages visitors to pick their favorite subjects out of a total of several hundreds of displayed photographs, rearrange them, name their sequences, and print them in the form of a fanfold. The publication analyzes the 30 000 sequences selected by the public. A detailed demonstration of the applied algorithms helps us to understand the connection between the photographs, the number of times they were chosen by an individual visitor, and how the visitors named their personal selection of images. The book traces the creative processes and the interaction of the visitors with the material of the installation as a work of art highly dependent on the involvement of the audience. Essays by curators and art historians discuss the subject on a theoretical level while examining the aspects of participation and emancipation as well as the question of the autonomy of images.
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Transcript Verlag Energy and Forces as Aesthetic Interventions –
Book SynopsisThis volume collects academic as well as artistic explorations highlighting historical and contemporary approaches to the "energetic" in its aesthetic and political potential. Energetic processes cross dance, performance art and installations. In contemporary dance and performance art, energetic processes are no longer mere conditions of form but appear as distinct aesthetic interventions. They transform the body, evoke specific states and push towards intensities.International contributors (i.e. Gerald Siegmund, Susan Leigh Foster, Lucia Ruprecht) unfold thorough investigations, elucidating maneuvers of mobilization, activation, initiation, regulation, navigation and containment of forces as well as different potentials and promises associated with the "energetic".
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Transcript Verlag Sensing Collectives: Aesthetic and Political
Book SynopsisAre aesthetics and politics really two different things? The book takes a new look at how they intertwine, by turning from theory to practice. Case studies trace how sensory experiences are created and how collective interests are shaped. They investigate how aesthetics and politics are entangled, both in building and disrupting collective orders, in governance and innovation. This ranges from populist rallies and artistic activism over alternative lifestyles and consumer culture to corporate PR and governmental policies. Authors are academics and artists. The result is a new mapping of the intermingling and co-constitution of aesthetics and politics in engagements with collective orders.
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transcript Verlag Hegel on Sacred Poetry
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mdwPress The Flavor of Thinking
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Holocaust in the Central European Literatures &
Book SynopsisThis volume addresses a problem of high controversy: Relating the Holocaust to poetic and aesthetic phenomena has often been seen as a taboo, as only authentic testimonies, documents, or at least unliterary, prosaic approaches were considered appropriate for dealing with the topic. However, from the very beginning of Holocaust literature and culture, there were tendencies towards literarisation, poetisation, and ornamentalisation. Nowadays, aesthetic approaches -- also in provocative, taboo-breaking ways -- are more and more regarded as important instruments to evoke the attention required for keeping the cataclysm in the collective memory. The contributions of the volume using examples predominantly from Polish, Czech, and German Holocaust literature and culture focus on selected aspects of this complex of problems, such as: poetry of concentration camp detainees; lyrical poetry about the Holocaust; poetical tendencies in narrative literature and drama; ornamental prose about the Holocaust; devices and functions of aestheticisation in Holocaust literature and culture.
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Oslo Academic Press Aesthetics in Prose
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Museum Tusculanum Press Transfiguration: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kunst &
Book SynopsisText in Danish.
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Mimesis International The Brutality of Things: Psychic Transformations
Book SynopsisThe author examines this theme through the psychoanalytic approach, as well as through philosophy, science and art, and using stories based on personal life and clinical experiences.
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc. In Search of a Sacred Ethos Articles Essays and Lectures on Music and Culture
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Oxford University Press Inc Nietzsche on Ethics and Politics
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Oxford University Press Apt Imaginings
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Oxford University Press Melody of Time Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era
Book SynopsisMusic has been seen since the Romantic era as the quintessentially temporal art, possessing a unique capacity to invoke the human experience of time. The Melody of Time explores the multiple ways in which music may provide insight into the problematics of time, spanning the dynamic century between Beethoven and Elgar.Trade ReviewAt once a deeply engaged historical studyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction ; 1. Time and Transcendence in Beethoven's late Piano Sonatas ; 2. Music, Time and Philosophy ; 3. Memory and Nostalgia in Schubert's Instrumental Music ; 4. Temporality in Russian Music and the Ideology of History ; 5. La sonate cyclique and the Structures of Time ; 6. Elgar's The Music Makers and the Spirit of Time ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Experiencing Art In the Brain of the Beholder
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Oxford University Press Absolute Music The History of an Idea
Trade ReviewYou should derive considerable enlightenment from Bonds' trenchant and pertinent perspectives. * Arnold Whittall, The Musical Times *...the idea...turns out to be a big one, and Bonds rises brilliantly to his own challenge, writing an epic narrative with a masterly command of 2,500 years of music history from the mysteries of Pythagoras to the mysteries of the CIA...Bonds's concept is immaculately conceived, wonderfully lucid, beautifully organized, and elegantly written. * Music Theory Online *This is an immensely informed, thoroughly documented, and detailed book, offering much to chew on during a delicious and intellectually nourishing journey through millennia of theoretical discussions about the nature of music. Readers with an interest in these matters should find Bonds' account profoundly satisfying, and his book should also provide the basis for graduate seminars on musical aesthetics. Highly recommended. * Classical.Net *Table of ContentsIntroduction 7 Part One Essence as Effect: To 1550 23 1. Orpheus and Pythagoras 23 2. Isomorphic Resonance 30 Part Two Essence and Effect: 1550-1850 39 3. Expression 41 The Separation of Powers 41 Music and Language 48 Music as Language 58 Mimesis 69 4. Beauty 79 5. Form 90 Form as Number 91 Form as Content 98 6. Autonomy 103 Material Autonomy 103 Ethical Autonomy 108 7. Disclosure 112 The Composer as Oracle 112 Beautiful Insights 117 Cosmic Insights 121 Part Three Essence or Effect: 1850-1945 127 8. Wagner's "Absolute" Music 129 9. Hanslick's "Pure" Music 140 Hanslick the Conventional 156 Hanslick the Radical 171 Hanslick the Ambivalent 181 10. Liszt's "Program" Music 205 11. Polemics 214 12. Reconciliation 231 13. Qualities Recast 244 Expression 246 Beauty 263 Form 264 Autonomy 278 Disclosure 284 Epilogue: Since 1945 292 Appendix: Hanslick's Vom Musikalischen-Schönen: Early and Selected Later Reviews and Commentary 294 Works Cited ] 304
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Oxford University Press, USA Good Taste Bad Taste and Christian Taste Aesthetics in Religious Life
Book SynopsisChristians frequently come into conflict with themselves and others over such matters as music, popular culture, and worship style. Yet they usually lack any theology of art or taste adequate to deal with aesthetic disputes. In this provocative book, Frank Burch Brown offers a constructive, ''ecumenical'' approach to artistic taste and aesthetic judgment--a non-elitist but discriminating theological aesthetics that has ''teeth but no fangs''.While grounded in history and theory, this book takes up such practical questions as: How can one religious community accommodate a variety of artistic tastes? What good or harm can be done by importing music that is worldly in origin into a house of worship? How can the exercise of taste in the making of art be a viable (and sometimes advanced) spiritual discipline? In exploring the complex relation between taste, religious imagination, and faith, Brown offers a new perspective on what it means to be spiritual, religious, and indeed Christian.Trade ReviewThis is a fascinating study: a book which gives the reader much to consider. Despite its teasing title, it is a serious examination of a serious subject * Journal of Theological Studies *The author is not only an erudite and distinguished scholar but a fair-minded man who does full justice to the opinions of those whose positions in theology and aesthetics are different from his own * Journal of Theological Studies *
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Oxford University Press Inc Who Needs Classical Music Cultural Choice and Musical Values
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Oxford University Press, USA A Theory of Art
Book SynopsisAddressed to anyone with a serious interest in the arts, this philosophical theory of art has three main objectives: to shift the focus of aesthetics from the question "What is art?"; to describe the social and historical situation of art today; and to combine aesthetics with poetics and hermeneutics.Trade Review"Berger's goal in this book is to explain how art functions, and what is its purpose. By doing so, he hopes to provide a framework in which political debates (as well as philosophical ones) about the meaning and importance of art can become more fruitful....The book reveals an author of formidable intellectual power and erudition."--he Trenton Times"Berger provides his 21st-century readers with an articulate and accessible restatement of 19th-century aesthetic propositions....General readers."--Choice"Here, musicologist Berger does nothing less than pull back the reins of postmodernism in favor of what could be called a balanced modernism."--Library Journal"This book is an intellectual feast. Berger argues with such clarity that even when one disagrees one learns. He's playing in the same league as the authors he cites: Hegel, Kant, Schopenhauer, and especially Aristotle. He deserves their company."--Richard Taruskin, Class of 1955 Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley"Berger's A Theory of Art is a tour de force of breadth, comprehension, and coverage. Its argumentative style is eminently lucid, accessible, and honest."--Lydia Goehr, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University"Not content simply to repeat or reformulate what others have said before him, Berger aims to show us how we can view art in a new way. Berger writes with great elegance, and has the uncanny ability to spin an elaborate web of ideas from the most basic premises. His concern with the function of art makes his book particularly relevant in light of current debates about public funding for the arts and about the place of art in our school curricula. Berger's A Theory of Art is a convincingly argued, richly textured, and timely book that will speak powerfully not only to academics in the various humanistic disciplines, but to anyone seriously interested in the arts."--John Daverio, Professor of Music, Boston University"This is an excellent and well-reasoned book which wades into the current debate about the relationship between aesthetics and ethics...Referencing Ricoeur, MacIntyre, and Gadamer, Berger perceives art as an invitation to new ways of being human as one enters a world which is embodied in stone, pigment, and sound...Berger concludes that art teaches us how to listen to and come into conversation with others in a way that encourages discernment and judgement of taste; it is a way of seeing through the pluralism of the postmodern world to a place worth bringing into being."--Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsAESTHETICS: THE END OF ARTWORKS; POETICS AND HERMENEUTICS: THE CONTENTS AND INTERPRETATION OF ARTWORKS
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Oxford University Press The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works An Essay in the Philosophy of Music
Trade ReviewEditor: Suzanne Ryan "In my opinion, this is the most important book on music aesthetics to appear in the last several decades.... Goehr does not seek a universal definition for music and its meanings but instead traces the history of the 'work concept' in Western music. She both reveals the developments that cemented the notion of the musical work in the 19th century and also examines the limits of that notion."--Susan McClary, Professor of Musicology, University of California -- Los Angeles"This book is not only a major contribution to the philosophy of music, but is also vitally important to understanding music history and performance practice. Further, those interested in rethinking the conventions of today's classical music world should not miss it."--Bernard Sherman, Iowa Public Radio, author of Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers, co-editor of Performing BrahmsTable of ContentsFOREWORD; INTRODUCTORY ESSAY: HIS MASTER'S CHOICE; INTRODUCTION; PART I. THE ANALYTIC APPROACH; PART II. THE HISTORICAL APPROACH; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED; INDEX
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