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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 18001840. 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 Beethovens 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. Platos 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 philosophers political engagement? Nevertheless, Platos ideal remained attractive for later Greek thinkers. This is illustrated, for instance, by one of Plutarch...