Rousseau Among the Moderns: Music, Aesthetics, Politics

Rousseau Among the Moderns: Music, Aesthetics, Politics

Julia Simon
$32.95
Publication Date: April 15th, 2015
Publisher:
Penn State University Press
ISBN:
9780271059594
Pages:
256
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Description

Reevaluates Jean-Jacques Rousseau through the lens of music theory to question his contribution to thinking about music as an aesthetic force in social life. Links Rousseau's understanding of concepts in music to the problem of the individual's relationship to the social order.

About the Author

Julia Simon is Professor of French at the University of California, Davis.