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A theory of virtual agency for Western art music
1. This book draws on theories of musical gesture and emotion to develop the first comprehensive theory of virtual musical agency in Western art music. It uses examples from tonal music of well-known Western composers. 2. The work of a mature scholar, this book represents the culmination of a scholarly career studying the theory of agency in music and compliments the other two books by Robert Hatten published by IUP. 3. The author is internationally known as a leading scholar in the field of music theory and also serves as the well-respected and very active editor for our Musical Meaning and Interpretation series.
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The spirit within me : self and agency in ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism
The first full-length study of the evolution of self and agency in ancient Israelite anthropology Conceptions of \"the self\" have received significant recent attention in philosophy, anthropology, and cultural history. Scholars argue that the introspective self of the modern West is a distinctive phenomenon that cannot be projected back onto the cultures of antiquity. While acknowledging such difference is vital, it can lead to an inaccurate flattening of the ancient self. In this study, Carol A. Newsom explores the assumptions that govern ancient Israelite views of the self and its moral agency before the fall of Judah, as well as striking developments during the Second Temple period. She demonstrates how the collective trauma of the destruction of the Temple catalyzed changes in the experience of the self in Israelite literature, including first-person-singular prayers, notions of self-alienation, and emerging understandings of a defective heart and will. Examining novel forms of spirituality as well as sectarian texts, Newsom chronicles the evolving inward gaze in ancient Israelite literature, unveiling how introspection in Second Temple Judaism both parallels and differs from forms of introspective selfhood in Greco-Roman cultures.
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Undisciplined
In the 19th century, personhood was a term of regulation and
discipline in which slaves, criminals, and others, could be \"made
and unmade.\" Yet it was precisely the fraught, uncontainable nature
of personhood that necessitated its constant legislation, wherein
its meaning could be both contested and controlled. Examining
scientific and literary narratives, Nihad M. Farooq's Undisciplined
encourages an alternative consideration of personhood, one that
emerges from evolutionary and ethnographic discourse. Moving
chronologically from 1830 to 1940, Farooq explores the scientific
and cultural entanglements of Atlantic travelers in and beyond the
Darwin era, and invites us to attend more closely to the
consequences of mobility and contact on disciplines and persons.
Bringing together an innovative group of readings-from field
journals, diaries, letters, and testimonies to novels, stage plays,
and audio recordings-Farooq advocates for a reconsideration of
science, personhood, and the priority of race for the field of
American studies. Whether expressed as narratives of acculturation,
or as acts of resistance against the camera, the pen, or the
shackle, these stories of the studied subjects of the Atlantic
world add a new chapter to debates about personhood and
disciplinarity in this era that actively challenged legal, social,
and scientific categorizations.
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Divine fury : a history of genius
\"Genius. The word connotes an almost unworldly power: the power to create, to grasp universal secrets, even to destroy. As renowned intellectual historian Darrin McMahon explains in Divine Fury, the concept of genius can be traced back to antiquity, when men of great insight were thought to be advised by demons. The modern idea of genius emerged in tension with a growing belief in human equality; contesting the notion that all are created equal, geniuses served to dramatize the exception of extraordinary individuals not governed by ordinary laws. Today, the idea of genius has become cheapened-rock stars and football coaches earn the term with seemingly the same ease as astrophysicists and philosophers-yet our enduring fascination with it reflects the desires, needs, and fears of ordinary human beings. The first comprehensive history of this mysterious yet foundational concept, Divine Fury follows the fortunes of genius from Socrates to Napoleon to Einstein and beyond, analyzing its democratization, disappearance, and potential rebirth.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Bound by recognition
In an era of heightened concern about injustice in relations of identity and difference, political theorists often prescribe equal recognition as a remedy for the ills of subordination. Drawing on the philosophy of Hegel, they envision a system of reciprocal knowledge and esteem, in which the affirming glance of others lets everyone be who they really are. This book challenges the equation of recognition with justice. Patchen Markell mines neglected strands of the concept's genealogy and reconstructs an unorthodox interpretation of Hegel, who, in the unexpected company of Sophocles, Aristotle, Arendt, and others, reveals why recognition's promised satisfactions are bound to disappoint, and even to stifle.
Written with exceptional clarity, the book develops an alternative account of the nature and sources of identity-based injustice in which the pursuit of recognition is part of the problem rather than the solution. And it articulates an alternative conception of justice rooted not in the recognition of identity of the other but in the acknowledgment of our own finitude in the face of a future thick with surprise. Moving deftly among contemporary political philosophers (including Taylor and Kymlicka), the close interpretation of ancient and modern texts (Hegel'sPhenomenology, Aristotle'sPoetics, and more), and the exploration of rich case studies drawn from literature (Antigone), history (Jewish emancipation in nineteenth-century Prussia), and modern politics (official multiculturalism), Bound by Recognition is at once a sustained treatment of the problem of recognition and a sequence of virtuoso studies.
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Dignity in the legal and political philosophy of Ronald Dworkin
Well-known for his contribution to the juristic world, Professor Ronald Dworkin was an outstanding legal philosopher of his generation. This volume celebrates the thoughts of Ronald Dworkin on dignity. The contributors have critically engaged with different perspectives of Dworkin's thoughts on dignity. The aim is to shed light on juridical and moral contemporary conundrums such as the role of dignity in constitutional contexts in India, and the understanding of dignity as either a foundation of human rights or as a supra value that illuminates other values and rights.
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Structures of agency : essays
This is a collection of published and unpublished chapters by distinguished philosopher Michael E. Bratman of Stanford University. They revolve around his influential theory, known as the “planning theory of intention and agency.” Bratman's primary concern is with what he calls “strong” forms of human agency—including forms of human agency that are the target of our talk about self-determination, self-government, and autonomy.
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