Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

2008

Abstract

Since analytic aesthetics began, around 50 years ago, music has perhaps been the art most discussed by philosophers. The reasons for philosophers' attraction to music as a subject are obscure, but one element is surely that music, as a non-linguistic, non-pictorial, multiple-instance, performance art, raises at least as many questions about expression, ontology, interpretation and value as any other art—questions that often seem more puzzling than those raised by other arts.

Editor

Kathleen Stock & Katherine Thomson-Jones

Identifier

10.1057/9780230227453

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

City

Basingstoke

ISBN

9780230220478

Publication Information

New Waves in Aesthetics

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Philosophy Commons

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