As illustrated in Goethe's famous novel of the same name,
elective affinities are powerful relationships that crystallize
under changing conditions. In this new book, Lydia Goehr focuses on
the history of elective affinities between philosophy and music
from German classicism, romanticism, and idealism to the modernist
aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno and Arthur C. Danto.
Aesthetic theory, she argues, depends on a dynamic philosophy of
history centered on tendencies, yearnings, needs, and
potentialities. With this in mind, she recasts the theses of Adorno
and Danto regarding the death or end of philosophy, art, music, and
human experience as arguments for continuation and survival.
"Elective Affinities" tracks the migration of aesthetic and
critical theory from Germany to the United States following the
catastrophic period of the twentieth century marked by the Second
World War.
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