Expression and truth
Subtitle: on the music of knowledge
By: Lawrence Kramer
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9780520273955; 9780520273962
Subjects: Music; Philosophy and aesthetics
Description: Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. Expression and Truth rejects this opposition and proposes fluid new models of expression, truth, and knowledge with broad application to the humanities. These models derive from five theses that connect expression to description, cognition, the presence and absence of speech, and the conjunction of address and reply. The theses are linked by a concentration on musical expression, regarded as the ideal case of expression in general, and by fresh readings of Ludwig Wittgenstein's scattered but important remarks about music. The result is a new conception of expression as a primary means of knowing, acting on, and forming the world [Publisher description]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.