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Elective Affinities: Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory

Elective Affinities: Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory

Goehr, Lydia

Paperback

Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art

PhilosophyMusic Instruction: General

ISBN10: 0231144814
ISBN13: 9780231144810
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Sep 13 2011
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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