Rousseau Among the Moderns
Music, Aesthetics, Politics
Seiten
2015
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-05959-4 (ISBN)
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-05959-4 (ISBN)
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Reevaluates Jean-Jacques Rousseau through the lens of music theory to question his contribution to thinking about music as an aesthetic force in social life. Links Rousseau's understanding of concepts in music to the problem of the individual's relationship to the social order.
Renowned for his influence as a political philosopher, a writer, and an autobiographer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is known also for his lifelong interest in music. He composed operas and other musical pieces, invented a system of numbered musical notation, engaged in public debates about music, and wrote at length about musical theory. Critical analysis of Rousseau’s work in music has been principally the domain of musicologists, rarely involving the work of scholars of political theory or literary studies. In Rousseau Among the Moderns, Julia Simon puts forth fresh interpretations of The Social Contract, the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and the Confessions, as well as other texts. She links Rousseau’s understanding of key concepts in music, such as tuning, harmony, melody, and form, to the crucial problem of the individual’s relationship to the social order. The choice of music as the privileged aesthetic object enables Rousseau to gain insight into the role of the aesthetic realm in relation to the social and political body in ways often associated with later thinkers. Simon argues that much of Rousseau’s “modernism” resides in the unique role that he assigns to music in forging communal relations.
Renowned for his influence as a political philosopher, a writer, and an autobiographer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is known also for his lifelong interest in music. He composed operas and other musical pieces, invented a system of numbered musical notation, engaged in public debates about music, and wrote at length about musical theory. Critical analysis of Rousseau’s work in music has been principally the domain of musicologists, rarely involving the work of scholars of political theory or literary studies. In Rousseau Among the Moderns, Julia Simon puts forth fresh interpretations of The Social Contract, the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and the Confessions, as well as other texts. She links Rousseau’s understanding of key concepts in music, such as tuning, harmony, melody, and form, to the crucial problem of the individual’s relationship to the social order. The choice of music as the privileged aesthetic object enables Rousseau to gain insight into the role of the aesthetic realm in relation to the social and political body in ways often associated with later thinkers. Simon argues that much of Rousseau’s “modernism” resides in the unique role that he assigns to music in forging communal relations.
Julia Simon is Professor of French at the University of California, Davis.
Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Text
Introduction
1Performance, Rhythm, and the Constitution of Community
2Singing Democracy: Music and Politics
3Rameau and Rousseau on Absolute and Relative Value: The Theory/Practice Problem
4Folk Music: Authenticity, Primitivism, and the Uses of Roots Music
5Rousseau and Aesthetic Modernity: Music’s Power of Redemption
Conclusion: Rousseau Sings the Blues
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.4.2015 |
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Zusatzinfo | 1 Halftones, black and white |
Verlagsort | Pennsylvania |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 386 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
ISBN-10 | 0-271-05959-1 / 0271059591 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-271-05959-4 / 9780271059594 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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