A Critical Phenomenology of Music

Disclosing/Transposing the Habitual Body Schema
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-92110-0
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 451 g

Drawing a link between music and what Maurice Merleau-Ponty calls the habit body – a quasi-transcendental structure at the heart of our perceptual, social, and agential being – this book helps articulate why music has the power to express as well as shape our existence at a fundamental level. Using phenomenology, research in the cognitive sciences, and first-person descriptions of musical experiences, this book addresses topics such as the relationship of music to identity, the capacity of music to be personally and socially transformative, the role of music in our perception of others, the connection between music and trauma, and the possibility of engendering we-experiences through shared musical time.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Elliott, Rachel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Musical Epistemology.- Chapter 3. Listening (Vignette).- Chapter 4. The Body in the Phenomenology of Perception.- Chapter 5. Singing (Vignette).- Chapter 6. Music and the Situated Body Schema.- Chapter 7. Dancing (Vignette).- Chpater 8. The Role of Others in Musical Experience.- Chapter 9. Per forming (Vignette).- Chapter 10. Transforming the Habit Body Through Music.- Chapter 11. Playing (Vignette).- Chapter 12. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Rachel Elliott is a Doctoral Lecturer in Philosophy at CUNY, College of Staten Island, in New York City. This is her first book.