The Conjectural Body: Gender, Race, and the Philosophy of Music

by Robin James and Robin James

Grounded in continental philosophy, The Conjectural Body: Gender, Race, and the Philosophy of Music uses feminist, critical race, and postcolonial theories to examine music, race, and gender as discourses that emerge and evolve with one another.. In the first section, author Robin James asks why philosophers commonly use music to explain embodied social identity and inequality. She looks at late twentieth-century postcolonial theory, Rousseau's early...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739139029
• ISBN13: 9780739139028
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"