Philosophy of the Performing Arts. A book review
Philosophy of the Performing Arts. A book review

Summary/Abstract: From the book review: "David Davies’s Philosophy of the Performing Arts is a great and informative book, written in a remarkably clear style, definitely worth recommending this to both professionals and graduate students, since reading it requires background knowledge. Accordingly, in his book, following the recent interests of philosophical aesthetics in the philosophy arts, Davies provides the reader with a throughout discussion of artistic performances that are considered as artworks in their own right. Such approach is thus distinctive from the framework of so-called “Classical Paradigm” (discussed in Part I of the book, see below), based on the assumption that classical music provides us with a model for performing arts as a whole. The author establishes the framework for further explorations (Part II), while bringing our disanalogies between performances of classical music and various other kinds of artistic performances. Thus, in his book Davies aims to identify, explore, clarify and account on the range of philosophical questions arising when one reflects on the nature of performing arts and our involvement with it."

• Details
• Contents