In other shoes : music, metaphor, empathy, existence / Kendall L. Walton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walton, Kendall L., 1939- author.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Summary:

In fifteen essays-one new, two newly revised and expanded, three with new postscripts-Kendall L. Walton wrestles with philosophical issues concerning music, metaphor, empathy, existence, fiction, and expressiveness in the arts. These subjects are intertwined in striking and surprising ways. By exploring connections among them, appealing sometimes to notions of imagining oneself in shoes different from one's own, Walton creates a wide-ranging mosaic of innovative insights.

Contents:

Empathy, imagination and phenomenal concepts

Fictionality and imagination : mind the gap

Two kinds of physicality, in electronic and acoustic music

Postscripts to 'Two kinds of physicality, in electronic and acoustic music'

Thoughtwriting-in poetry and music

'It's only a game' : sports as fiction

Restricted quantification, negative existentials, and fiction

Existence as metaphor?

Postscript to 'Existence as metaphor?'

Projectivism, empathy, and musical tension

Listening with imagination : is music representational?

Metaphor and prop oriented make-believe

Understanding humor and understanding music

What is abstract about the art of music?

The presentation and portrayal of sound patterns

Postscripts to 'The presentation and portrayal of sound patterns'

Fearing fictions

Spelunking, simulation and slime : on being moved by fiction.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-023243-9

0-19-509871-4

0-19-972322-2

OCLC:

896800393