[audiobook] Thinking Art by Antoon van den Braembussche in Arts-Photography

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What is consciousness? Why and when do we have it? Where does it come from; and how does it relate to the lump of squishy grey matter in our heads; or to our material and social worlds? While neuroscientists; philosophers; psychologists; historians; and cultural theorists offer widely different perspectives on these fundamental questions concerning what it is like to be human; most agree that consciousness represents a hard problem.The emergence of consciousness studies as a multidisciplinary discourse addressing these issues has often been associated with rapid advances in neuroscience-perhaps giving the impression that the arts and humanities have arrived late at the debating table. The longer historical view suggests otherwise; but it is probably true that music has been under-represented in accounts of consciousness. Music and Consciousness aims to redress the balance: its twenty essays offer a timely andmulti-faceted contribution to consciousness studies; critically examining some of the existing debates and raising new questions.The collection makes it clear that to understand consciousness we need to do much more than just look at brains: studying music demonstrates that consciousness is as much to do with minds; bodies; culture; and history. Incorporating several chapters that move outside Western philosophical traditions; Music and Consciousness corrects any perception that the study of consciousness is a purely occidental preoccupation. And in addition to what it says about consciousness the volume also presents adistinctive and thought-provoking configuration of new writings about music.