Peter Kivy: 4 books

In De Gustibus Peter Kivy deals with a question that has never been fully addressed by philosophers of art: why do we argue about art? We argue about the 'facts' of the world either to influence people's behaviour or simply to get them to see what we take to be the truth about the world. We argue...

Este libro trata sobre el concepto del genio artístico y sobre la forma en que llegó a ser representado por tres grandes compositores de la era moderna: Handel, Mozart y Beethoven. La elección de estos tres músicos no es la expresión de una preferencia personal, sino que viene determinada por...

Antithetical Arts constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put literary interpretations on the absolute music canon. In Part I, the historical origins of both the literary interpretation of absolute music and musical formalism are laid out. In Part II, specific attempts to...

Drawing comparisons with other art forms, this book examines the role of aesthetic features in silent reading, such as narrative structure, and the core experience of reading a novel as a story rather than a scholarly exercise. Focuses on the experience of the art form known as the novel Uses...