Virtue Or Virtuosity

Author : Jane O'Dea
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313030680

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Virtue or Virtuosity? by Jane O'Dea Pdf

Drawing upon the past two decades of burgeoning literature in philosophy of music, this study offers a comprehensive, critical analysis of what is entailed in performance interpretation. It argues that integrity and other virtues offset the harm that virtuosity and rigid historical authenticity can impose on the perceptive judgment required of excellent musical interpretation. Proposed are challenging and provocative reassessments of the appropriate roles for virtuosity and historical authenticity in musical performance. Acknowledging the competitive ethos of the contemporary music scene, it details the kind of character a performer needs to develop in order to withstand those pressures and to achieve interpretive excellence. Performers are encouraged to examine and explore the ethical dimension of their art against their responsibilities to the diverse patrons they serve. Professional and student performers and instructors will appreciate this practical discussion of the ethical challenges performers confront when interpreting musical works. The ethical discourse applies to instrumental performance studies, the history and theory of music, general music pedagogy, and philosophy of music courses.

Author : Eugene Ferraro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 093730901X

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Virtues and the Virtuous by Eugene Ferraro Pdf

Author : Marie-Laure Djelic,Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139458023

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Transnational Governance by Marie-Laure Djelic,Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson Pdf

Globalization involves a profound re-ordering of our world with the proliferation everywhere of rules and transnational modes of governance. This book examines how this governance is formed, changes and stabilizes. Building on a rich and varied set of empirical cases, it explores transnational rules and regulations and the organizing, discursive and monitoring activities that frame, sustain and reproduce them. Beginning from an understanding of the powerful structuring forces that embed and form the context of transnational regulatory activities, the book scrutinizes the actors involved, how they are organized, how they interact and how they transform themselves to adapt to this new regulatory landscape. A powerful analysis of the modes and logics of transnational rule-making and rule-monitoring closes the book. This authoritative resource offers ideal reading for all academic researchers and graduate students of governance and regulation.

Author : Karin Knorr-Cetina,H. Strasser,H.G. Zilian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1975-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 902770600X

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Determinants and Controls of Scientific Development by Karin Knorr-Cetina,H. Strasser,H.G. Zilian Pdf

This book constitutes the outcome of an international conference held at the Otto-Mobes-Volkswirtschaftsschule, Graz-Stifting( Austria), from June 16 to 22, 1974. The conference was initiated by a project group working on determinants and controls of social science development at the In stitute for Advanced Studies and Scientific Research in Vienna and or ganized by the editors of this volume. It was held under the auspices of the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research. The main topics of the conference were those at the forefront of the 'state of argumentation' (to borrow from one of our contributors) in philosophy and sociology of science ever since the controversy between Thomas S. Kuhn and Sir Karl R. Popper has sharpened our awareness for the methodological and substantial presuppositions involved with questions of growth and development in science. Let us give two examples of those topics. The borderline between sociology of science and philo sophy of science has become more and more unclear; while the work of at least some philosophers of science comes to have an empirical flavour, sociologists of science are increasingly apt to include logical and methodo logical components of the research process as their objects of examina tion. Papers included in this volume testify to both tendencies.

Author : Naren Chitty,Lilian Ji,Gary D Rawnsley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000904086

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The Routledge Handbook of Soft Power by Naren Chitty,Lilian Ji,Gary D Rawnsley Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Soft Power (2nd Edition) offers a comprehensive, detailed, and ground-breaking examination of soft power – a key factor in cultural diplomacy, cultural relations, and public diplomacy. Interrogating soft power as influence, the handbook examines manifestations in media, public mind, policy, and theory – in a fraught geopolitical climate, one demanding reconceptualization of soft power’s role in state and civic society behaviour. Part I provides important new conceptualization and critical analysis of soft power from international relations, philosophical, and other social theoretical perspectives; analyses multiple methods of soft power measurement and makes proposals; and connects soft power innovatively with other concepts Part II addresses soft power and contemporary issues by examining new technology and soft power intentions, soft power and states’ performance during the global pandemic, and soft power and values Part III investigates cases from China, France, Greece, Israel, Japan, Kazhakstan, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Türkiye, and the United States – some in combination. This innovative handbook is a definitive resource for inquirers into soft power desiring to familiarize themselves with cutting-edge debates and research. It will be of interest and value to students, researchers, and policy makers working in cultural relations, international communication, international relations, public diplomacy, and contiguous fields.

Author : Ding Weixiang
Publisher : American Academic Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781631814266

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EMERGENCE AND INTERPRETATION by Ding Weixiang Pdf

Mencius’ many assertions from virtue “Being what I inherently possess” to “this [virtue] is what Heaven or Nature gives to me” clearly show the basic self-consciousness of virtue in pre-Qin Confucianism and the confirmation that virtue originates from Heaven or Nature. Then, what was the reason for the Chinese “Axis Age” thinkers to unanimously trace the origin of human virtue back to Heaven or Nature and the mandate of Heaven? Of course, for them, the source of human virtue is Heaven or Nature, which means that they realized that human being was the limit of cognition. Since in their view, the problem is itself a question that transcends human cognition or that human understanding can possibly clarify both virtue itself and the source of human virtue being beyond the bounds of human knowledge. Namely, tracing back virtue to its source is a quest that transcends the capacity of human understanding. However, those who have been influenced by modern cognitive theory and who constantly explore how Confucian thought emerged as well as how it took shape, cannot give a satisfying answer. Therefore, to trace the emergence and development of Confucianism through the perspective of the survival of agency and the foundation of the survival of agency is not only my own personal interest, but also one necessary for clarifying the development of Confucianism and the legitimacy of its existence.

Author : Peimin Ni
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438464510

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Understanding the Analects of Confucius by Peimin Ni Pdf

A new translation and commentary of the Analects for contemporary audiences. The Analects of Confucius is arguably the single most influential work of China’s cultural heritage. In this new English translation, Peimin Ni accomplishes the rare feat of simultaneously providing a faithful translation of the text, offering his own reading based on gongfu (practice) perspective, and presenting major alternative readings to help the reader understand how diverse interpretations and controversies arise. In addition to the inclusion of the original Chinese text, Ni adds a comprehensive introduction, a discussion of key terms, annotations, and extensive cross-references. In doing so, Ni makes the text accessible and engaging for today’s audience. “Understanding the Analects of Confucius is an outstanding work of sinological scholarship.” — Henry Rosemont Jr., author of A Reader’s Companion to the Confucian Analects “Peimin Ni’s translation of the Analects has many virtues that make it stand out as an exemplary version of this most important Chinese text. Ni has chosen to present the text as a living document, embedded in two thousand years of commentarial conversation over its meaning, with today’s readers very much part of that ongoing conversation.” — Stephen C. Angle, author of Contemporary Confucian Political Philosophy

Author : Jan de Jong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X004640797

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Virtue : Virtuoso, Virtuosity in Netherlandisch Art 1500-1700 by Jan de Jong Pdf

Virtue was ubiquitous in early modern Europe, not because everyone behaved well, but in the sense that interest in the subject was pervasive and intense. In a changing society, the widening aspiration to nobility was justified by claims to different kinds of virtue and the theory of virtue was the established way of re-assessing accepted human values. In Latin-based languages and humanist culture, certain materially based qualities attributed to the artwork itself eventually became identified as 'virtuosity', and the 'virtuoso' emerged in 17th century Europe as an elite figure with a particular interest in and appreciation of works of art and other objects of virtue. This volume brings together a set of essays on the relevance of virtue to Netherlandish art, dealing with virtue as a popular subject of visual representation and opening up fascinating links and comparisons between the special qualities accorded to revered works of art with the claims of elite artists and beholders to privileged standing. Themes addressed range from a discussion of ways in which Dutch artists and writers adapted courtly and humanist notions of martial virtue to validate still life to an analysis of political and painterly virtue in a mythological painting by Cornelisz. van Haarlem; from an examination of Goltzius's 'Tabula Cebetis' as a representation of artistic virtue to an exploration of the virtues of amateur landscape in the seventeenth century Netherlands. The volume also reconsiders the relationship between virtue and 'net' and 'rouw' painting, particularly with reference to the definition of sprezzatura in Castiglione's 'Book of the Courtier'. Or readers can compare Rubens' self-identification with virtue through humanist friendship with Jan Brueghel the Elder's reference, as a court painter, to the virtue and diligence of both his conduct and his art. Within a wide range of subject-matter and approaches, the authors share a commitment to establishing the place of virtue at the heart of Netherlandish art.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1544 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : WISC:89116883372

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Jan De Jong,Dulcia Meijers,Mariet Westermann,Joanna Woodall
Publisher : Brill Academic Publishers
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 900426776X

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Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art (Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek) by Jan De Jong,Dulcia Meijers,Mariet Westermann,Joanna Woodall Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11456150

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The Century Dictionary by Anonim Pdf

Author : N. Amzalak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230316898

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Fascists and Honourable Men by N. Amzalak Pdf

Was France fascist in the interwar period? This comprehensive historical, political and sociological account follows the rise of engineers and political "non-conformists" in the first half of the twentieth century, examining the French technocracy's relationship with the rise of fascism in France and later the establishment of the Fourth Republic.

Author : Gillen D'Arcy Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521117333

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Romanticism and Music Culture in Britain, 1770-1840 by Gillen D'Arcy Wood Pdf

This book surveys the role of music in British culture throughout the long Romantic period.

Author : Shirley Chan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030046330

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Dao Companion to the Excavated Guodian Bamboo Manuscripts by Shirley Chan Pdf

This volume covers the philosophical, historical, religious, and interpretative aspects of the ancient Guodian bamboo manuscripts (郭店楚簡) which were disentombed in the Guodian Village in Hubei Province, China, in 1993. Considered to be the Chinese equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls, these manuscripts are archaeological finds whose importance cannot be underestimated. Many of the texts are without counterparts in the transmitted tradition, and they provide unique insights into the developments of Chinese philosophy in the period between the death of Confucius (551-479 BCE) and the writings of Mencius (c.372-289 BCE), and beyond. Divided into two parts, the book first provides inter-textual contexts and backgrounds of the Guodian manuscripts. The second part covers the main concepts and arguments in the Guodian texts, including cosmology and metaphysics, political philosophy, moral psychology, and theory of human nature. The thematic essays serve as an introduction to the philosophical significance and the key philosophical concepts/thought of each text contained in the Guodian corpus. Each chapter has a section on the implications of the texts for the received tradition, or for the purpose of comparing some of the text(s) with the received tradition in terms of the key philosophical concepts as well as the reading and interpretation of the texts. The volume covers most of the texts inscribed on the 800-odd slips of the Guodian corpus dated to the fourth century BCE.

Author : Melinda Latour
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780197529744

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The Voice of Virtue by Melinda Latour Pdf

The Voice of Virtue illuminates the musical practices at the heart of the Neostoic movement that spread across French lands during the Wars of Religion in the latter half of the sixteenth century. Guided by twin reparative traditions granting music and philosophy therapeutic power, composers and performers across the embattled Catholic and Protestant confessions turned to moral song as a means of repairing personal and collective virtue damaged by the ongoing conflict. Moral song collections enlarged interest in Stoic philosophy by circulating its ethical program to a broader audience through attractive paraphrases of Stoic maxims set to music. Even more importantly, this skillfully composed repertoire of polyphonic song offered a multi-sensory moral practice that would have resonated powerfully for those well-versed in the paradoxes of the Stoic tradition. Bringing together a repertoire of little-known music prints, a rich visual culture, and an impressive body of literary and philosophical sources, The Voice of Virtue not only illuminates the influence of Stoicism on music, but also reveals that we cannot fully understand Neostoicism as an intellectual or cultural movement without accounting for its vibrant musical sounds. Virtue, as voiced in these Stoic practices, proves to be both rational and fully invested in the sensory processes of the singing body.