Expression and Truth
On the Music of Knowledge
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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-520-27396-2
- EAN: 9780520273962
- Produktnummer: 13067949
- Verlag: University of California Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Masse: H15.3 cm x B22.7 cm x D1.1 cm 298 g
- Abbildungen: 7 music examples
- Gewicht: 298
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Lawrence Kramer, is Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University. He is the author of many books, most recently, Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History , Opera and Modern Culture , and Why Classical Music Still Matters, all from UC Press
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