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Autore |
Walton Kendall L. <1939-> |
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In other shoes : music, metaphor, empathy, existence / / Kendall L. Walton |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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0-19-023243-9 |
0-19-509871-4 |
0-19-972322-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (321 pages) |
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Aesthetics |
Music - Philosophy and aesthetics |
Art - Philosophy |
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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. |
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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 |
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and surprising ways. By exploring connections among them, appealing sometimes to notions of imagining oneself in shoes different from one's own, Walton creates a wide-ranging mosaic of innovative insights. |
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