| #2503486 in Books | Lydia Goehr | 2008-10-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x1.06 x6.14l,1.50 | File type: PDF | 408 pages | Elective Affinities Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Exceptional|By Luca Graziuso and Marina Ross|Lydia Goehr has written many critiques of music with an indispensable and unique Adornian-Bloch flair such as The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music and The Quest for Voice: Music, Politics and the Limits of Philosophy but none as thought provoking and intimately felt as her latest work Elective||Elective Affinities is a great book. Lydia Goehr demonstrates that critical theory is not as dead or philosophically doctrinaire and petrified as many would like to believe. Instead, her study is a brilliant and persuasive intervention arguing for the s
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...
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