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EXPRESSION AND TRUTH
ON THE MUSIC OF KNOWLEDGE |
| By: |
Lawrence Kramer |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£59.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0520273958 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780520273955 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
18 September, 2012 |
| Pages: |
184 |
| Description: |
Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. This title features five theses that connect expression to description, cognition, the presence and absence of speech, and the conjunction of address and reply. |
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Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. Expression and Truth rejects this opposition and proposes fluid new models of expression, truth, and knowledge with broad application to the humanities. These models derive from five theses that connect expression to description, cognition, the presence and absence of speech, and the conjunction of address and reply. The theses are linked by a concentration on musical expression, regarded as the ideal case of expression in general, and by fresh readings of Ludwig Wittgenstein's scattered but important remarks about music. The result is a new conception of expression as a primary means of knowing, acting on, and forming the world. "Recent years have seen the return of the claim that music's power resides in its ineffability. In Expression and Truth, Lawrence Kramer presents his most elaborate response to this claim.Drawing on philosophers such as Wittgenstein and on close analyses of nineteenth-century compositions, Kramer demonstrates how music operates as a medium for articulating cultural meanings and that music matters too profoundly to be cordoned off from the kinds of critical readings typically brought to the other arts. A tour-de-force by one of musicology's most influential thinkers."--Susan McClary, Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music. |
| Illustrations: |
7 music examples |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of California Press |
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Returnable |
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