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The Aesthetics of Music$
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Roger Scruton

Print publication date: 1999

Print ISBN-13: 9780198167273

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003

DOI: 10.1093/019816727X.001.0001

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The Aesthetics of Music
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Roger Scruton

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/019816727X.003.0011

Develops a theory of expression that will incorporate the insights developed in Chs. 7–10, and also to the constraints laid down in Ch. 6. Understanding expression is likened to ’knowing what it's like’, which is in turn analysed in terms of a Wittgensteinian theory of first‐person awareness. Expression, so understood, is integral to the meaning and value of any work that possesses it, and can be fully understood only in the context of a theory of aesthetic value.

Keywords:   expression, first‐person awareness, what it's like, Wittgenstein

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