[audiobook] Gemstones of the World by Elisabeth Laws at Arts-Photography

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Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind; truth to states of affairs. Expression and Truth rejects this opposition and proposes fluid new models of expression; truth; and knowledge with broad application to the humanities. These models derive from five theses that connect expression to description; cognition; the presence and absence of speech; and the conjunction of address and reply. The theses are linked by a concentration on musical expression; regarded as the ideal case of expression in general; and by fresh readings of Ludwig Wittgensteinrsquo;s scattered but important remarks about music. The result is a new conception of expression as a primary means of knowing; acting on; and forming the world."Recent years have seen the return of the claim that musicrsquo;s power resides in its ineffability. In Expression and Truth; Lawrence Kramer presents his most elaborate response to this claim. Drawing on philosophers such as Wittgenstein and on close analyses of nineteenth-century compositions; Kramer demonstrates how music operates as a medium for articulating cultural meanings and that music matters too profoundly to be cordoned off from the kinds of critical readings typically brought to the other arts. A tour-de-force by one of musicologyrsquo;s most influential thinkers."mdash;Susan McClary; Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music.