Elective Affinities : Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory

Name: Elective Affinities
Brand: Columbia University Press
SKU: 9780231144810
Price: 6300 KES
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ISBN: 9780231144810

by Lydia Goehr

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

ISBN-10 0231144814

ISBN-13 9780231144810

Publisher Columbia University Press

Imprint Columbia University Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 13th, 2011

Print length 408 Pages

Weight 552 grams

Dimensions 15.40 x 23.00 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Theory of music & musicology Philosophy: aesthetics

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As illustrated in Goethe's famous novel of the same name, elective affinities are powerful relationships that crystallize under changing conditions. In this new book, Lydia Goehr focuses on the history of elective affinities between philosophy and music from German classicism, romanticism, and idealism to the modernist aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno and Arthur C. Danto. Aesthetic theory, she argues, depends on a dynamic philosophy of history centered on tendencies, yearnings, needs, and potentialities. With this in mind, she recasts the theses of Adorno and Danto regarding the death or end of philosophy, art, music, and human experience as arguments for continuation and survival. Elective Affinities tracks the migration of aesthetic and critical theory from Germany to the United States following the catastrophic period of the twentieth century marked by the Second World War.

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