Sensitivity, Inspiration, and Rational Aesthetics: Experiencing Music in the North German Enlightenment
Description:
This dissertation examines pre-Kantian rational philosophy and the development of the discipline of aesthetics in the North German Enlightenment. With emphasis on the historical conception of the physiological and psychological experience of music, this project determines the function of music both privately and socially in the eighteenth century. As a result, I identify the era of rational aesthetics (ca.1750-1800) as a music-historical period unified by the aesthetic function and metaphysical…
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Date:
December 2015
Creator:
Fick, Kimary E.
Partner:
UNT Libraries