Elective Affinities Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory - Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

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.

ISBN:	9780231144810
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Imprint:	Columbia University Press
Published date:	13 Sep 2011
DEWEY:	781.17
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xx, 386
Weight:	552g
Height:	154mm
Width:	230mm
Spine width:	23mm

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