
The Possessor and the Possessed
Peter Kivy
(Author)Description
Peter Kivy, a leading thinker in musical aesthetics, delineates the two concepts of genius that were already well formed in the ancient world. Kivy then develops the argument that these concepts have alternately held sway in Western thought since the beginning of the eighteenth century. He explores why this pendulum swing from the concept of the possessor to the concept of the possessed has occurred and how the concepts were given philosophical reformulations as views toward Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven as geniuses changed in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
Product Details
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Publish Date | July 15, 2011 |
Pages | 304 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780300180183 |
Dimensions | 8.0 X 5.3 X 0.7 inches | 0.8 pounds |
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