Reification and the Aesthetics of Music

ISBN-13: 9780367144166 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 186 str.

Jonathan Lewis

Opis

This innovative study re-evaluates the philosophical significance of aesthetics in the context of contemporary debates on the nature of philosophy. Lewis's main argument is that contemporary conceptions of meaning and truth have been reified, and that aesthetics is able to articulate why this is the case, with important consequences for understanding the horizons and nature of philosophical inquiry.

Spis treści

Introduction: Philosophy, Music and Aesthetics  1. Reifying Aesthetics  2. Interpreting Wagner  3. Beyond Analytic Aesthetics  4. Musical Analyticity and Postmodern Aesthetics  5. Reification and Relativism Conclusion

O autorze

Jonathan Lewis is a College Supervisor at the University of Cambridge, UK