Musical meaning and human values [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Keith Chapin and Lawrence Kramer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457044203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0-8232-3544-0; 0-8232-4681-7; 1-282-69851-6; 9786612698514; 0-8232-3797-4; 0-8232-3011-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ChapinKeith Moore; KramerLawrence <1946->
• Disciplina: 781/.1
• Soggetti: Music - History and criticism; Music - Philosophy and aesthetics; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-222) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Due rose, due volte : a study of early modern subjectivities / Susan McClary -- Sublime experience and ironic action : E.T.A. Hoffmann and the use of music for life / Keith Chapin -- The devoted ear : music as contemplation / Lawrence Kramer -- Music and fantasy / Marshall Brown -- Whose Brahms is it anyway? Observations on the recorded legacy of the B℗♭ piano concerto, op. 83 / Walter Frisch -- The civilizing process : music and the aesthetics of time-space relations in The girl of the golden west / Richard Leppert -- A farewell, a femme fatale, and a film : three awkward moments in twentieth-century music / Peter Franklin -- "Pour out ... forgiveness like a wine" : can music "say an existence is wrong"? / Walter Bernhart.
• Sommario/riassunto: Musical understanding has evolved dramatically in recent years, principally through a heightened appreciation of musical meaning in its social, cultural, and philosophical dimensions. This collection of essays ; by leading scholars addresses an aspect of meaning that has not yet received its due: the relation of meaning in this broad humanistic sense to the shaping of fundamental values. The volume examines the open and active circle between the values and valuations placed on music by both individuals and societies, and the discovery, through music, of what and how to value.With a combination of cultural criticism and close readings of musical works, the contributors demonstrate repeatedly that to make music is also to make value, in every sense. They give particular attention to values that have historically enabled music to assume a formative role in human societies: to foster practices of contemplation, fantasy, and irony; to explore sexuality, subjectivity, and the uncanny; and to articulate longings for unity with nature and for moral certainty. Each essay in the collection shows, in its own way, how music may provoke transformative reflection in its listeners and thus help guide humanity to its own essential embodiment in the world.The range of topics is broad and developed with an eye both to the historical specificity of values and to the variety of their possible incarnations. The music is both canonical and noncanonical, old and new. Although all of it is “classical,” the contributors’ treatment of it yields conclusions that apply well beyond the classical sphere. The composers discussed include Gabrieli, Marenzio, Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Wagner, Puccini, Hindemith, Schreker, and Henze.Anyone interested in music as it is studied today will find this volume essential reading.

Quntres

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910144978503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY, : Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary
• Disciplina: 492
• Soggetti: Hebrew literature - History and criticism; Jews - Books and reading; Jewish literature - History and criticism; Hebrew imprints - History; Hebrew imprints; Hebrew literature; Jewish literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; History; Periodicals.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Periodico
• Note generali: Refereed/Peer-reviewed; "An online journal for the history, culture, and art of the Jewish book."
• Sommario/riassunto: Refereed journal of scholarly contributions of any length relating to any aspect of the history of the Jewish book in all of its forms. For purposes of the journal, the Jewish book is defined as works written or published in Hebrew characters, in any language: Hebrew, Aramaic, Ladino, Yiddish, Judeo-Persian, etc. Contributions may relate to scrolls or codices or fragments thereof, in manuscript or printed, or to electronic publishing of the Jewish book.

Quantum theory and the flight from realism : philosophical responses to quantum mechanics / / Christopher Norris

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910967546903321
• Autore: Norris Christopher <1947->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2000
• ISBN: 1-134-59524-7; 0-203-24980-1; 0-203-46431-1; 1-280-10798-7; 1-134-59525-5; 9786610107988
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Collana: Critical realism--interventions
• Disciplina: 530.12; 530.1201
• Soggetti: Quantum theory - Philosophy; Realism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Is it possible to be a realist about quantum mechanics; 2 Quantum theory and the logic of anti realism; 3 Bell Bohm and the EPR debate a case for nonlocal realism; 4 Quantum worlds without end: the multiverse according to Deutsch; 5 Should philosophers take lessons from quantum theory; 6 Putnam's progress: quantum theory and the flight from realism; 7 Can logic be quantum-relativized? Putnam, Dummett and the great quantum muddle; 8 From Copenhagen to the stars some ways of quantum worldmaking; Index of names
• Sommario/riassunto: A critical introduction to the long-standing debate concerning the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics, and the problems the field has posed for physicists and philosophers from Einstein to the present.