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A Cognitive-Emotive Analysis of Hanslick’s Formalism

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Emotion in Aesthetics

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Although this chapter is a critique of the views of Hanslick, the arguments apply equally well to subsequent formalists. Kivy states (1993: 6):

Hanslick’s monograph still lies at the core of all teaching and thinking about the ‘philosophy of music’ where the vexed question of ‘music and the emotions’ is being considered.1

What the nature of the link is that connects music with the emotions…left [us] in complete darkness.

Hanslick 1957: 9

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  1. cf. Kivy’s 1993: 265–295 for his critique of Hanslick.

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  2. Schiller in Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1967: I. 283; VII, 313.

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  3. cf. Lyas in Hanfling 1992: 367–368.

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  4. For example, Newcomb 1984.

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  5. cf. Shibles 1974a, 1978bd.

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Shibles, W. (1995). A Cognitive-Emotive Analysis of Hanslick’s Formalism. In: Emotion in Aesthetics. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 64. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8579-8_9

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