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Note publique d'information : "In this new book, Lydia Goehr focuses on the history of elective affinities between
philosophy and music from German classicism, romanticism, and idealism to the modernist
aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno and Arthur C. Danto. Aesthetic theory, she argues,
depends on a dynamic philosophy of history centered on tendencies, yearnings, needs,
and potentialities. With this in mind, she recasts the theses of Adorno and Danto
regarding the death or end of philosophy, art, music, and human experience as arguments
for continuation and survival. Elective Affinities tracks the migration of aesthetic
and critical theory from Germany to the United States following the catastrophic period
of the twentieth century marked by the Second World War."--BOOK JACKET