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OverviewThis dissertation reads the history of Western art music aesthetics alongside the history of drugs in order to analyze some of the different conceptions of subjectivity that these histories enabled, constructed, and reconfigured. Focusing specifically on ideas that emerged in German-speaking territories between the 1770s and 1820s, each of the four chapters presents a case study in which I compare texts that describe and theorize musical experience to texts that sought to do the same for various kinds of drug-induced experiences. These case studies analyze texts from a variety of discursive fields, including musical aesthetics, medicine, and literature. Each chapter focuses on different phenomenological building blocks that have helped construct the experience of selfhood during the time period in question, including its conditions of possibility and dissolution. Taken as a whole, this study demonstrates that there are significant similarities between historical descriptions of music- and drug-induced phenomenology, a fact with both epistemological and disciplinary implications. Among other things, this dissertation argues that a comparative study of music and drugs enables us to gain both a nuanced understanding of how theories of human selfhood have been constructed and the subtle ways in which culturallylocalizable beliefs can become naturalized through the language of aesthetics and medicine. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sean ColonnaPublisher: Hbnisha Imprint: Hbnisha Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.336kg ISBN: 9781835207802ISBN 10: 1835207804 Pages: 246 Publication Date: 23 September 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |