Lydia Goehr: "The Use and Abuse of Beauty in Everyday Life: Or, Philosophical Thoughts on the Concept of Bohème"
In this lecture, Lydia Goehr will discuss beauty in connection with visual drawings in the opera, one of the themes for her new book on opera.
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Lydia Goehr is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, NY. Her research interests are in German aesthetic theory, and in particular in the relationship between philosophy, politics, history, and music. She has given substantial contributions to the field of philosophy of music with her works The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music (1992/2007), The Quest for Voice: Music, Politics, and the Limits of Philosophy [essays on Richard Wagner] (1998), Elective Affinities: Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory [essays on Adorno and Danto] (2008), and The Don Giovanni Moment: Essays on the legacy of an Opera (2006) with co-editor Daniel Herwitz.
In this lecture, she will discuss beauty in connection with visual images in opera, which is one of the themes for her new book on opera.
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