Music and aesthetic reality : formalism and the limits of description /

"In this volume, Zangwill develops a view of the nature of music and our experience of music that foregrounds the aesthetic properties of music. He focuses on metaphysical issues about aesthetic properties of music, psychological issues about the nature of musical experience, and philosophy of...

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Main Author: Zangwill, Nick (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2015
Series:Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; 68
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Music and emotion: 1. Against emotion: Hanslick sas right about music
  • 2. Music, metaphor and emotion
  • 3. Music, emotion and method
  • Part II. Describing music: 4. Music, metaphor and aesthetic concepts
  • 5. Music, essential metaphor and private language
  • 6. Music and politics
  • 7. Metaphor as appropriation
  • Part III. Musical experience: 8. Listening to music together
  • 9. Scruton's musical experiences
  • 10. Aesthetic experience and aesthetic realism