Book Details
Orange Code:32084
Paperback:321 pages
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1. Empathy, Imagination, and Phenomenal Concepts2. Fictionality and Imagination—Mind the Gap3. Two Kinds of Physicality in Electronic and Traditional Music4. Thoughtwriting—In Poetry and Music5. “It’s Only a Game!”: Sports as Fiction6. Restricted Quantification, Negative Existentials, and Fiction7. Existence as Metaphor?8. Projectivism, Empathy, and Musical Tension9. Listening with Imagination: Is Music Representational?10. Metaphor and Prop Oriented Make-Believe11. Understanding Humor and Understanding Music12. Spelunking, Simulation, and Slime: On Being Moved by Fiction
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In fifteen essays-one new, two newly revised and expanded, three with new postscripts-Kendall L. Walton wrestles with philosophical issues concerning music, metaphor, empathy, existence, fiction, and expressiveness in the arts. These subjects are intertwined in striking and surprising ways. By exploring connections among them, appealing sometimes to notions of imagining oneself in shoes different from one's own, Walton creates a wide-ranging mosaic of innovative insights
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