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New Paths

aspects of Music Theory and Aesthetics in the Age of Romanticism

2011 || Paperback || Crispin Darla || Universitaire Pers Leuven

'New Paths', the seventh volume in the Writings of the Orpheus Institute, is a result of the third International Orpheus Academy for Music Theory. Five renowned scholars discuss a variety of topics related to romanticism, focusing especially on the years 1800–1840. In a much-needed historical and critical overview of the concept of organicism, John Neubauer ranges from its origins in Enlightenment biology to its aftermath in postmodernism.

Janet Schmalfeldt shows that Beethoven’s op.47 not o...

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Plutarch's Maxime cum principibus philosopho esse disserendum

an interpretation with commentary

2011 || Hardcover || G. Roskam || Universitaire Pers Leuven

The question of the political relevance of philosophy, and of the role which the philosopher should play in the government of his state, was often discussed in Antiquity. Plato’s ideal of the philosopher-king is well-known, but was precisely his failure to realise his political ideal in Syracuse not the best argument against the philosopher’s political engagement? Nevertheless, Plato’s ideal remained attractive for later Greek thinkers. This is illustrated, for instance, by one of Plutarch...