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Roma non basta una vita. Voor Rome is een enkel leven niet genoeg, een mens heeft meer tijd nodig om de rijke geschiedenis van de Eeuwige Stad in al h

Antithetical Arts constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put literary interpretations on the absolute music canon. In Part

A survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. It features eighteen freshly commissioned papers on the evaluation of art, the in

Peter Kivy deals with a question that has never been fully addressed by philosophers of art: why do we argue about art? If I think Bach is greater tha

Sounding Off brings together a selection of essays on philosophy of music written by Peter Kivy--the leading expert on the subject. The essays fall in

Peter Kivy presents a fascinating critical examination of the two rival ways of understanding instrumental music. He argues against 'literary' interpr

This is a wide-ranging study through text and art that presents our current understanding of gender constructs in the ancient Near East and surroundin

Peter Kivy mounts a philosophical inquiry into the desirability of using or re-creating historical practices in musical performance.

The City: A World History depicts the rise of urban centers from the middle of the fourth century BCE to the early twenty-first century. It begins in

This collection of essays from Peter Kivy span a period of some thirty years and focus on a richly diverse set of issues providing an enjoyable and in

This collection of essays from Peter Kivy span a period of some thirty years and focus on a richly diverse set of issues providing an enjoyable and in

What makes a musical work profound? What is it about pure instrumental music that the listener finds attractive and rewarding? In addressing these que

The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is one of the most authoritative surveys of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. The volume feat

The terms mental health, maturity, personality integration, self-actualization have been used by psychologists to represent the realm of the ideal or