Aesthetics Blogs & Blog Posts
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- The browbeaten masses by This Blog Will Change the World on Nov 4, 2009
A terrific post at The Transcontinental on the recent musoc.org dustup, and the overwhelming dominance of a "middlebrow consensus" in the classical music community:To be clear - I am not saying high culture is better than mass culture. What I am sayi...
- On being a creative artist in a recession by This Blog Will Change the World on Sep 27, 2009
All civilisation, as well as all religion, ultimately rests on the truth that we do not "need" beautiful things to be good. Beautiful things belong precisely to that category of reality which is, as the Greeks first taught, beyond necessity. They are...
- Under scrutony by This Blog Will Change the World on Aug 29, 2009
There's an awful lot of writing on musical aesthetics. Unfortunately, most of it is highly unsatisfactory. Most of the great philosophers seem to have had tin ears, and so the topic of musical aesthetics has largely been left to amateurs - critics, c...
- Asking the wrong questions by This Blog Will Change the World on Aug 13, 2009
What is music?In most times and places, this would not be a difficult question to answer. I doubt it would occur to a contemporary of Mozart, for example, to ask for a definition of "music". If they did ask, they would probably get an ostensive defin...
- A correction by This Blog Will Change the World on Aug 3, 2009
We all make mistakes. Those of us who have blogs, of course, are prone to a different class of mistake than other life-forms.Regular visitors to this page (as opposed to those who follow TBWCTW by RSS reader) will recall my rather poorly-written "Abo...
- The road to incoherence by This Blog Will Change the World on Jul 30, 2009
I've recently endorsed the neo-Thomistic philosophy of Jacques Maritain, whose "Art and Scholasticism" extends the theories of the mediaeval schoolmen to the study of aesthetics. For scholastic philosophers, the realm of aesthetics encompasses not on...
- Saul, was verfolgst du mich? by This Blog Will Change the World on Jul 27, 2009
I am currently re-reading The Unconscious Civilization, a transcript of John Ralston Saul's 1995 Massey Lectures. Having originally read the book some eight years ago and remembered it as a cogent analysis of North American social ills, I was disappo...
