Music and Philosophy in the Roman Empire (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Pelosi, Francesco (Universita degli Studi; Petrucci, Federico M. (Universita degli Studi di Torino

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Is music just matter of hearing and producing notes? And is it of interest just to musicians? By exploring different authors and philosophical trends of the Roman Empire, from Philo of Alexandria to Alexander of Aphrodisias, from the rebirth of Platonism with Plutarch to the last Neoplatonists, this book sheds light on different ways in which music and musical notions were made a crucial part of philosophical discourse. Far from being mere metaphors, notions such as harmony, concord and attunement became key philosophical tools in order to better grasp and conceptualise fundamental notions in philosophical debates from cosmology to ethics and from epistemology to theology. The volume is written by a distinguished international team of contributors.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2021
• ISBN-13: 9781108936330
• Artikelnr.: 70914254

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Francesco Pelosi and Federico Maria Petrucci; 1. Scala nature
and music: two models in Philo's thought Carlos Lévy; 2. Music and
Plutarch's Platonic cosmos Bram Demulder; 3. The harmoniser god: harmony as
a cosmological model in middle Platonist theology Federico M. Petrucci; 4.
Alexander of Aphrodisias and musical models for ontological enquiries Laura
M. Castelli; 5. How to resist musical dogmatism: the aim and methods of
Pyrrhonian inquiry in Sextus Empiricus' 'Against the Musicologists' (Math.
VI) Máté Veres; 6. Shifting epistemological perspectives in Ptolemy's
'Harmonics': from the science of sound to the study of music Andrew Barker;
7. Musical imagery in Clement of Alexandria and Origen: the Greek musical
world revised and accepted Francesco Pelosi; 8. Plotinus on music, rhythm,
and harmony Alexandra Michalewski; 9. Porphyry's 'Commentary on Ptolemy's
Harmonics': questions of philosophic and scientific identity Harold
Tarrant; 10. The music of the virtues in late ancient Platonism Dominic
O'Meara; 11. Harmonics as theological paradigm in Proclus Stephen Gersh;
12. Calcidius on cosmic harmony Christina Hoenig; 13. Harmonia in
Philoponus' 'Commentary on Nicomachus' introduction to arithmetic' Giovanna
R. Giardina.