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The Mystery of Chopin's Préludes

The Mystery of Chopin's Préludes

Chopin's twenty-four Préludes remain as mysterious today as when they were newly published. What prompted Franz Liszt and others to consider Chopin's Préludes to be compositions in their own right rather than introductions to other works? What did set Chopin's Préludes so drastically apart from their forerunners? What exactly was 'the morbid the feverish the repellent' that Schumann heard in Opus 28 in that 'wild motley' of 'strange sketches' and 'ruins'? Why did Liszt and another anonymous reviewer publicly suggest that Lamartine's poem Les Préludes served as an inspiration for Chopin's Opus 28? And if that is indeed the case how did the poem affect the structure and the thematic contents of Chopin's Préludes? And lastly is Opus 28 a random assortment of short pieces or a cohesive cycle? In this monograph richly illustrated with musical examples Anatole Leikin combines historical perspectives hermeneutic and thematic analyses and a range of practical implications for performers to explore these questions and illuminate the music of one of the best loved collections of music for the piano. | The Mystery of Chopin's Préludes

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Rethinking J.S. Bach's The Art of Fugue

Rethinking J.S. Bach's The Art of Fugue

The enigmatic character of The Art of Fugue became apparent as early as in its first edition printed more than a year after the composer’s death. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach who published both the first and the second editions raised several unsolved questions regarding this opus. Anatoly P Milka presents a consistent and coherent solution to the unresolved questions about the history structure and appearance of J. S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue opening new perspectives for further exploration of this musical masterpiece. Milka challenges the present scholarly consensus that there exist two different versions of The Art of Fugue (the Autograph and the Original Edition) and argues that Bach had considered four versions of which only two are apparent and have been discussed so far. Only Bach’s illness and death prevented him from fulfilling his plan and publishing a fourth conclusive version of his opus. | Rethinking J. S. Bach's The Art of Fugue

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The Routledge Guidebook to Smith's Wealth of Nations

The Routledge Guidebook to Smith's Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith (1723–1790) is famous around the world as the founding father of economics and his ideas are regularly quoted and invoked by politicians business leaders economists and philosophers. However considering his fame few people have actually read the whole of his magnum opus The Wealth of Nations – the first book to describe and lay out many of the concepts that are crucial to modern economic thinking. The Routledge Guidebook to Smith’s Wealth of Nations provides an accessible clear and concise introduction to the arguments of this most notorious and influential of economic texts. The Guidebook examines: the historical context of Smith’s though and the background to this seminal work the key arguments and ideas developed throughout The Wealth of Nations the enduring legacy of Smith’s work The Routledge Guidebook to Smith’s Wealth of Nations is essential reading for students of philosophy economics politics and sociology who are approaching Smith’s work for the first time. | The Routledge Guidebook to Smith's Wealth of Nations

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Abū’l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s Scientific Philosophy The Kitāb al-Mu‘tabar

Abū’l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s Scientific Philosophy The Kitāb al-Mu‘tabar

Abū’l-Barakāt is often considered one of the most comprehensive philosophers of the Arabic-Jewish milieu in the medieval age. His extensive and unique philosophical theories especially his theories in the particular sciences were seen as a major challenge for the traditional conceptions of the Aristotelian school of thought during and after this period. ‘Abū’l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s Scientific Philosophy’ explores the core material of Abū’l-Barakāt’s scientific studies found in his magnum opus the Kitāb al-Mu‘tabar. The book then locates these scientific theories within Abū’l-Barakāt’s philosophy more widely. Whilst providing a comprehensive critique of ancient philosophy including the work of Aristotle certain affinities between Abū’l-Barakāt’s work and that of more modern scientific conceptions are also examined. Containing vast amounts of previously untranslated text ‘Abū’l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s Scientific Philosophy’ sheds new light on the philosopher’s scientific theories particularly with regards to his logical conceptions. For this reason the book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Jewish and Islamic Philosophy whilst the scientific material will appeal to those studying the history of science. | Abū’l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s Scientific Philosophy The Kitāb al-Mu‘tabar

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Abū’l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s Metaphysical Philosophy The Kitāb al-Mu‘tabar

Abū’l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s Metaphysical Philosophy The Kitāb al-Mu‘tabar

Abū’l-Barakāt is a renowned philosopher of the Arabic-Jewish milieu who composed in his magnum opus the Kitāb al-Mu‘tabar a comprehensive metaphysics which challenged the accepted notions of the traditional metaphysical philosophy. ‘Abū’l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s Metaphysical Philosophy’ examines the novel philosophical conceptions of the first book of the Metaphysics of the Kitāb al-Mu‘tabar. The aim is to present a developed conception of Abū’l-Barakāt’s systematic metaphysics. This is accomplished by following the order of topics discussed while translating the relevant passages. These different topics comprise stages of cognition that move from an analysis of time creation and causality to the conception of a higher spiritual realm of mental entities and a conception of God as the First Knower and Teacher. The epistemological and ontological conceptions are analyzed at each culminating stage. ‘Abū’l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s Metaphysical Philosophy’ analyzes vast portions of the metaphysical study for the first time. The book will thus be a valuable resource for all those seeking an original and broad metaphysics and for students and scholars of Jewish and Islamic Philosophy. Furthermore it is of importance for those seeking a metaphysics related to scientific theories and those interested in the history of science and metaphysics. | Abū’l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s Metaphysical Philosophy The Kitāb al-Mu‘tabar

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The Invention of Humboldt On the Geopolitics of Knowledge

The Invention of Humboldt On the Geopolitics of Knowledge

The Invention of Humboldt is a game-changing volume of essays by leading scholars of the Hispanic world that explodes many myths about Alexander von Humboldt and his world. Rather than ‘follow in Humboldt’s footsteps ’ this book outlines the new critical horizon of post-Humboldtian Humboldt studies: the archaeology of all that lies buried under the Baron’s epistemological footprint. Contrary to the popular image of Humboldt as a solitary ‘adventurer’ and ‘hero of science’ surrounded by New World nature The Invention of Humboldt demonstrates that the Baron’s opus and practice was largely derivative of the knowledge communities and archives of the Hispanic world. Although Humboldtian writing has invented a powerful cult that has served to erase the sources of his knowledge and practice in truth Humboldt did not ‘invent nature ’ nor did he pioneer global science: he was the beneficiary of Iberian natural science and globalization. Nor was Humboldt a pioneering ‘postcolonial’ cultural relativist. Instead his anthropological views of the Americas were Orientalist and historicist and in most ways were less enlightened than those of his Creole contemporaries. This book will reshape the landscape of Humboldt scholarship. It is essential reading for all those interested in Alexander von Humboldt the Hispanic American enlightenment and the global history of science and knowledge. | The Invention of Humboldt On the Geopolitics of Knowledge

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Before and After Corroboree: The Music of John Antill

Before and After Corroboree: The Music of John Antill

John Antill (1904-1986) was one of the foremost composers of Australia's post-colonial period. Although a relatively prolific and much esteemed composer in Australia Antill's wider reputation is sustained chiefly by his famous ballet Corroboree - a work which was perceived to bring an authentic Australian musical style before both a national and international audience for the first time. Through Sir Eugene Goossens' championship the work was heard by enthusiastic audiences in Australia Britain Europe and the USA and was for many years the best-known work of any Australian-born and resident composer. Indeed it has remained for both Australian and overseas audiences an Australian musical icon. David Symons traces Antill's development as a composer from his early pre-Corroboree works which display a late Romantic to post-impressionist style through an analysis of the virile dissonant primitivist idiom of his magnum opus to an examination of his later output of theatrical orchestral and vocal/choral works. The book provides comprehensive and valuable insight into Antill's musical output at the same time focussing on more detailed analyses of his major works which have reached public performances and/or recordings. In this way the book not only presents a developmental picture of Antill's works but also demonstrates why they have made him one of Australia's most prominent musical creators of the post-colonial period. | Before and After Corroboree: The Music of John Antill

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Reading Lacan’s Écrits: From ‘Signification of the Phallus’ to ‘Metaphor of the Subject’

Reading Lacan’s Écrits: From ‘Signification of the Phallus’ to ‘Metaphor of the Subject’

The Écrits was Jacques Lacan’s single most important text a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics philosophy and literature. Reading Lacan’s Écrits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan’s Écrits to be published in English. An invaluable document in the history of psychoanalysis and one of the most challenging intellectual works of the twentieth century Lacan’s Écrits still today begs the interpretative engagement of clinicians scholars philosophers and cultural theorists. The three volumes of Reading Lacan’s Écrits offer just this: a series of systematic paragraph-by-paragraph commentaries – by some of the world’s most renowned Lacanian analysts and scholars – on the complete edition of the Écrits inclusive of lesser known articles such as ‘Kant with Sade’ ‘The Youth of Gide’ ‘Science and Truth’ ‘Presentation on Transference’ and ‘Beyond the Reality Principle. The originality and importance of Lacan’s Écrits to psychoanalysis and intellectual history is matched only by the text’s notorious inaccessibility. Reading Lacan’s Écrits is an indispensable companion piece and reference-text for clinicians and scholars exploring Lacan's magnum opus. Not only does it contextualize explain and interrogate Lacan's arguments it provides multiple interpretative routes through this most labyrinthine of texts. Reading Lacan’s Écrits provides an incisive and accessible companion for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in training and in practice as well as philosophers cultural theorists and literary social science and humanities researchers who wish to draw upon Lacan’s pivotal work. | Reading Lacan’s Écrits: From ‘Signification of the Phallus’ to ‘Metaphor of the Subject’

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Keynes Against Capitalism His Economic Case for Liberal Socialism

Keynes Against Capitalism His Economic Case for Liberal Socialism

Keynes is one of the most important and influential economists who ever lived. It is almost universally believed that Keynes wrote his magnum opus The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money to save capitalism from the socialist communist and fascist forces that were rising up during the Great Depression era. This book argues that this was not the case with respect to socialism. Tracing the evolution of Keynes’s views on policy from WWI until his death in 1946 Crotty argues that virtually all post-WWII Keynesian economists misinterpreted crucial parts of Keynes’s economic theory misunderstood many of his policy views and failed to realize that his overarching political objective was not to save British capitalism but rather to replace it with Liberal Socialism. This book shows how Keynes’s Liberal Socialism began to take shape in his mind in the mid-1920s evolved into a more concrete institutional form over the next decade or so and was laid out in detail in his work on postwar economic planning at Britain’s Treasury during WWII. Finally it explains how The General Theory provided the rigorous economic theoretical foundation needed to support his case against capitalism in support of Liberal Socialism. Offering an original and highly informative exposition of Keynes’s work this book should be of great interest to teachers and students of economics. It should also appeal to a general audience interested in the role the most important economist of the 20th century played in developing the case against capitalism and in support of Liberal Socialism. Keynes Against Capitalism is especially relevant in the context of today’s global economic and political crises. | Keynes Against Capitalism His Economic Case for Liberal Socialism

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Collective Violence Contentious Politics and Social Change A Charles Tilly Reader

Collective Violence Contentious Politics and Social Change A Charles Tilly Reader

Charles Tilly is among the most influential American sociologists of the last century. For the first time his pathbreaking work on a wide array of topics is available in one comprehensive reader. This manageable and readable volume brings together many highlights of Tilly’s large and important oeuvre covering his contribution to the following areas: revolutions and social change; war state making and organized crime; democratization; durable inequality; political violence; migration race and ethnicity; narratives and explanations. The book connects Tilly’s work on large-scale social processes such as nation-building and war to his work on micro processes such as racial and gender discrimination. It includes selections from some of Tilly’s earliest influential and out of print writings including The Vendée; Coercion Capital and European States; the classic War Making and State Making as Organized Crime; and his more recent and lesser-known work including that on durable inequality democracy poverty economic development and migration. Together the collection reveals Tilly’s complex compelling and distinctive vision and helps place the contentious politics approach Tilly pioneered with Sidney Tarrow and Doug McAdam into broader context. The editors abridge key texts and in their introductory essay situate them within Tilly’s larger opus and contemporary intellectual debates. The chapters serve as guideposts for those who wish to study his work in greater depth or use his methodology to examine the pressing issues of our time. Read together they provide a road map of Tilly’s work and his contribution to the fields of sociology political science history and international studies. This book belongs in the classroom and in the library of social scientists political analysts cultural critics and activists. | Collective Violence Contentious Politics and Social Change A Charles Tilly Reader

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