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Possessor and the Possessed
The concept of genius intrigues us. Artistic geniuses have something other people don’t have. In some cases that something seems to be a remarkable kind of inspiration that permits …
Philosophies of Arts
Since the beginning of the eighteenth century the philosophy of art has been engaged on the project of trying to find out what the fine arts have in common and, thus, how they …
Antithetical Arts
Antithetical Arts constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put literary interpretations on the absolute music canon. In Part I, the historical origins of …
De Gustibus
In De Gustibus Peter Kivy deals with a question that has never been fully addressed by philosophers of art: why do we argue about art? We argue about the 'facts' of the world …
Sounding Off
Sounding Off brings together a selection of essays on philosophy of music written by Peter Kivy-the leading expert on the subject. The essays fall into four groups, corresponding …
Performance of Reading
The Performance of Reading argues that there are distinct analogies between "e;silent"e; reading and artistic performance, and so fashions the new role of the reader as …
Music, Language, and Cognition
Music, Language, and Cognition is the third collection of Peter Kivy's seminal papers in the philosophy of music. In essays which span his earliest work in the field and his more …
El poseedor y el poseído
Este libro trata sobre el concepto del genio artístico y sobre la forma en que llegó a ser representado por tres grandes compositores de la era moderna: Handel, Mozart y Beethoven. …
Sounding Off
Sounding Off brings together a selection of essays on philosophy of music written by Peter Kivy-the leading expert on the subject. The essays fall into four groups, corresponding …
Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics
The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is the most authoritative survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. The volume features eighteen newly commissioned …
Introduction to a Philosophy of Music
Philosophy of music has flourished in the last thirty years, with great advances made in the understanding of the nature of music and its aesthetics. Peter Kivy has been at the …
Philosophies of Arts
Kivy proposes a new strategy for defining fine art in a lucid study of literature and music.