Music & Philosophy

Hermeneutics and Music Criticism forges new perspectives on aesthetics, politics and contemporary interpretive strategies. By advancing new insights into the roles judgment and imagination play both in our experiences of music and its critical interpretation, this book reevaluates our current unders..

From the era of the 18th-century European Enlightenment to the present, music has long claimed residency in and served as an important conduit for philosophy. This book examines the various ways the writings of ten contemporary philosophers (from Adorno and Bloch to Badiou and Žižek) attempt to meta..

Music, Time, and Its Other explores the relation between the enigmatic character of our temporal experiences and music’s affective power. Taking account of competing concepts of time, Savage relates music’s power of expression to the disproportion between our temporally finite existence and eternity..