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In other shoes : music, metaphor, empathy, existence /

In fifteen essays-one new, two newly revised and expanded, three with new postscripts-Kendall L. Walton wrestles with philosophical issues concerning music, metaphor, empathy, existence, fiction, and expressiveness in the arts. These subjects are intertwined in striking and surprising ways. By explo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walton, Kendall L., 1939- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Empathy, imagination and phenomenal concepts
  • Fictionality and imagination : mind the gap
  • Two kinds of physicality, in electronic and acoustic music
  • Postscripts to 'Two kinds of physicality, in electronic and acoustic music'
  • Thoughtwriting-in poetry and music
  • 'It's only a game' : sports as fiction
  • Restricted quantification, negative existentials, and fiction
  • Existence as metaphor?
  • Postscript to 'Existence as metaphor?'
  • Projectivism, empathy, and musical tension
  • Listening with imagination : is music representational?
  • Metaphor and prop oriented make-believe
  • Understanding humor and understanding music
  • What is abstract about the art of music?
  • The presentation and portrayal of sound patterns
  • Postscripts to 'The presentation and portrayal of sound patterns'
  • Fearing fictions
  • Spelunking, simulation and slime : on being moved by fiction.