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By Lawrence Kramer

Expression and fact are conventional opposites in Western proposal: expression supposedly refers to states of brain, fact to states of affairs. Expression and Truth rejects this competition and proposes fluid new types of expression, fact, and data with vast program to the arts. those versions derive from 5 theses that attach expression to description, cognition, the presence and lack of speech, and the conjunction of handle and answer. The theses are associated by way of a focus on musical expression, considered as the precise case of expression mostly, and via clean readings of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s scattered yet very important feedback approximately song. the result's a brand new perception of expression as a main technique of realizing, performing on, and forming the world.

"Recent years have noticeable the go back of the declare that music’s strength is living in its ineffability. In Expression and Truth, Lawrence Kramer provides his such a lot difficult reaction to this declare. Drawing on philosophers comparable to Wittgenstein and on shut analyses of nineteenth-century compositions, Kramer demonstrates how track operates as a medium for articulating cultural meanings and that song concerns too profoundly to be cordoned off from the types of serious readings ordinarily dropped at the opposite arts. A tour-de-force through considered one of musicology’s so much influential thinkers."—Susan McClary, Desire and delight in Seventeenth-Century Music.

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