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Music, Philosophy and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou

Music, Philosophy and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou

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Series: Crosscurrents

PhilosophyGeneral Music

ISBN10: 1474458319
ISBN13: 9781474458313
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Aug 18 2020
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

What counts as music for contemporary thinkers? Why is music of use to philosophers and how do they use it in their work? How do philosophers decide what music is and what assumptions are uncritically inherited in this move? And what is the philosophical relationship between music and gender? To answer these questions, Sarah Hickmott looks at the way music is used, characterised and understood in the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Alain Badiou. Despite the differences in their philosophical-theoretical positions, all of these writers invoke music - both directly and indirectly - to negotiate their relationship to ontology, politics, ethics and aesthetics. Given a longer philosophical history, dating back at least to Plato, of aligning music with the feminine, she also focuses on the way gender is deployed, understood and constructed within the philosophy of music.

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