Philosophy, Music and Emotion

by Geoffrey Madell

Philosophy, Music and Emotion explores two issues which have been intensively debated in contemporary philosophy: the nature of music's power to express emotion, and the nature of emotion itself. It shows how closely the two topics are related and provides a radically new account of what it means to say that music 'expresses emotion'. Geoffrey Madell maintains that most current accounts of musical expressiveness are fundamentally misguided...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748616128
• ISBN13: 9780748616121
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.5"