Elective Affinities: Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory

by Lydia Goehr

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231144814
• ISBN13: 9780231144810
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher