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Philosophy, music, and emotion /

Philosophy, Music and Emotion explores two issues which have been intensively debated in contemporary philosophy: the nature of music's power to express emotion, and the nature of emotion itself. It shows how closely the two topics are related and provides a radically new account of what it mea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Madell, Geoffrey
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Contour and convention
  • Contour
  • Convention
  • Do we 'animate' musical gestures?
  • Chapter 2: Musics's arousal of emotion
  • Why Hanslick is wrong
  • Music's arousal of emotion
  • Chapter 4: The advantages of the new arousalist position
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 5: Emotion, judgement and desire
  • Why the standard judgementalist view of emotion is untenable
  • Desire and intentional feeling
  • Why not all reason-providing desire have an affective dimension
  • What is the exact role of intentional feeling?
  • Chapter 6: Pleasure and emotion
  • The threat of Hedonism
  • Hedonistic pleasure and our experience of music pleasure as a mode of attention
  • A resolution of the conflicting positions
  • The analysis of pleasure and music's expression of emotion
  • The indispensability of the notion of intentinal feeling
  • Reason-following desire, and taking pleasure in what has objective value
  • Chapter 7: The nature of emotion
  • The relation between the affective and the intentional components of emotion
  • The nature of emotion and music's expression of emotion
  • Chapter 8: Music's expression of emotion
  • Emotions in musical and in non-musical contexts
  • Hanslick Again
  • Are there any emotions that music cannot express?
  • Some remaining difficulties
  • Chapter 9: Retrospect.