Enlightenment Orpheus

by Vanessa Agnew

The Enlightenment saw a critical engagement with the ancient idea that music carries certain powers - it heals and pacifies, civilizes and educates. Yet this interest in musical utility seems to conflict with larger notions of aesthetic autonomy that emerged at the same time. In Enlightenment Orpheus, Vanessa Agnew examines this apparent conflict, and provocatively questions the notion of an aesthetic-philosophical break between the eighteenth and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195336666
• ISBN13: 9780195336665
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.4"