The Phenomenology of a Simple Song: Expression, Creativity, and the Recovery of Aesthetics

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dc.contributor.advisorBalfour, Ian G.
dc.contributor.advisorSteigerwald, Joan
dc.contributor.advisorCoghlan, Michael
dc.creatorBreit, Susan Patrick
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-11T18:06:16Z
dc.date.available2014-07-11T18:06:16Z
dc.date.copyright2013-12-16
dc.date.issued2014-07-09
dc.date.updated2014-07-09T16:22:27Z
dc.degree.disciplineInterdisciplinary Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractAbstract By placing aesthetics as art back within the phenomena of experience, this work seeks to recover philosophical aesthetics from the marginal position into which it has been relegated. Merleau-Ponty’s thought and the perception of music lay a groundwork for ontology and epistemology less conditioned by Cartesian biases. Musical thinking highlights the rich content of thought, the dimensionality of meaning, and the need to place language back within the phenomena of expression. A phenomenology of expression by way of songwriting reveals a complex creative process, a good portion of which is not transparent (neither rooted in reflective thought nor consciously determined). There emerges a notion of subjectivity and intentionality that transcends and subtends the “I” with which we ordinarily identify. The lyre of Orpheus opens the doors of the unreflective life, the aesthetic dimension, the intimacy of the world that transcends us, and the generosity of the subjectivity that subtends us.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/27602
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectAestheticsen_US
dc.subjectPhilosophyen_US
dc.subjectMusicen_US
dc.subject.keywordsArtistic practiceen_US
dc.subject.keywordsPhenomenologyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsExpressionen_US
dc.subject.keywordsCreativityen_US
dc.subject.keywordsAestheticsen_US
dc.subject.keywordsMerleau-Pontyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsWittgensteinen_US
dc.subject.keywordsIntentionalityen_US
dc.subject.keywordsSubjectivityen_US
dc.subject.keywordsCreative processen_US
dc.subject.keywordsMusicen_US
dc.subject.keywordsMarginalization of aestheticsen_US
dc.subject.keywordsMethodologyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsOntologyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsLinguistic theoryen_US
dc.subject.keywordsMeaningen_US
dc.subject.keywordsHermeneuticsen_US
dc.subject.keywordsSongwritingen_US
dc.subject.keywordsMusicen_US
dc.subject.keywordsPoetryen_US
dc.subject.keywordsArten_US
dc.subject.keywordsWhiteheaden_US
dc.subject.keywordsIntimacyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsAesthetic experienceen_US
dc.titleThe Phenomenology of a Simple Song: Expression, Creativity, and the Recovery of Aestheticsen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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