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  • Being True to Works of Music

    by Julian Dodd ...
    Being True to Works of Music explores the varieties of authenticity involved in our practice of performing works of Western classical music. Its key argument is that the familiar 'authenticity debate' about the performance of such works has tended to focus on a side issue. While much has been written about the desirability (or otherwise) of historical authenticity -- roughly, performing works as ... Read more

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  • Art, Mind, and Narrative

    Themes from the Work of Peter Goldie

    Edited by Julian Dodd ...
    Series series Mind Association Occasional Series
    This volume presents new essays on art, mind, and narrative inspired by the work of the late Peter Goldie, who was Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester until 2011. Its three sections cover Narrative Thinking; Emotion, Mind, and Art; and Art, Value, and Ontology. Within these sections, leading authorities in the philosophy of mind, aesthetics and the emotions offer ... Read more

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  • Nature

    “Build, therefore, your own world.As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions…”Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson is considered one of the most important philosophical works ever published.With masterly eloquence, this soul-satisfying essay is a treasure.Emerson writes about the extraordinary power of nature as a way of bringing the divine into ... Read more

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    This book provides a richly rewarding vision of the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. Composed of fourteen wide-ranging but finely integrated essays by Richard Shusterman, the originator of the field, Thinking through the Body explains the philosophical foundations of somaesthetics and applies its insights to central issues in ethics, education, cultural politics, consciousness ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Music and Emotion

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    Music's ability to express and arouse emotions is a mystery that has fascinated both experts and laymen at least since ancient Greece. The predecessor to this book 'Music and Emotion' (OUP, 2001) was critically and commercially successful and stimulated much further work in this area. In the years since publication of that book, empirical research in this area has blossomed, and the successor to ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

    Edited by Frederick C. Beiser ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy examines Hegel within his broader historical and philosophical contexts. Covering all major aspects of Hegel's philosophy, the volume provides an introduction to his logic, epistemology, philosophy of mind, social and political philosophy, philosophy of nature and aesthetics. It includes essays by an internationally recognised team ... Read more

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  • Philosophy Bites Again

    Philosophy Bites Again is a brand new selection of interviews from the popular podcast of the same name. It offers engaging and thought-provoking conversations with leading philosophers on a selection of major philosophical issues that affect our lives. Their subjects include pleasure, pain, and humour; consciousness and the self; free will, responsibility, and punishment; the meaning of life and ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Poetry

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  • Philosophers on Music

    Experience, Meaning, and Work

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  • Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
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