Essays in Analysis
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: George Braziller
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13:
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Engaging Music
Author: Deborah Jane Stein
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of 21 model essays written by contemporary North American scholars in music theory is designed to provide advanced undergraduates and graduates majoring in music with exemplary models of music analysis. The book would be a useful supplement to the scores that are studies in upper level Form and Analysis courses.
Power, Trust, and Meaning
Author: S. N. Eisenstadt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1995-06-15
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780226195568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKS. N. Eisenstadt is well known for his wide-ranging investigations of modernization, social stratification, revolution, comparative civilization, and political development. This collection of twelve major theoretical essays spans more than forty years of research, to explore systematically the bases of human action and society. Framed by a new introduction and an extensive epilogue, which are themselves important statements about processes of institutional formations and cultural creativity, the essays trace the major developments of contemporary sociological theory and analysis. Examining themes of trust and solidarity among immigrants, youth groups, and generations, and in friendships, kinships, and patron-client relationships, Eisenstadt explores larger questions of social structure and agency, conflict and change, and the reconstitution of the social order. He looks also at political and religious systems, paying particular attention to great historical empires and the major civilizations. United by what they reveal about three major dimensions of social life—power, trust, and meaning—these essays offer a vision of culture as both a preserving and a transforming aspect of social life, thus providing a new perspective on the relations between culture and social structure.
Meaning and Analysis: New Essays on Grice
Author: Richard Breheny
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-10-13
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0230282113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe anthology 'Meaning and Analysis' addresses the key topics of H. Paul Grice's philosophy of language, such as rationality, non-natural meaning, communicative actions, conversational implicatures, the semantics-pragmatics distinction and recent debates concerning minimalist versus contextualist semantics.
Expressive Intersections in Brahms
Author: Heather Platt
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012-07-18
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0253005256
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“This exceptionally fine collection brings together many of the best analysts of Brahms, and nineteenth-century music generally, in the English-speaking world today.” —Nineteenth-Century Music Review Contributors to this exciting volume examine the intersection of structure and meaning in Brahms’s music, utilizing a wide range of approaches, from the theories of Schenker to the most recent analytical techniques. They combine various viewpoints with the semiotic-based approaches of Robert Hatten, and address many of the most important genres in which Brahms composed. The essays reveal the expressive power of a work through the comparison of specific passages in one piece to similar works and through other artistic realms such as literature and painting. The result of this intertextual re-framing is a new awareness of the meaningfulness of even Brahms’s most “absolute” works. “Through its unique combination of historical narrative, expressive content, and technical analytical approaches, the essays in Expressive Intersections in Brahms will have a profound impact on the current scholarly discourse surrounding Brahms analysis.” —Notes
Rhetorical Considerations
Author: Harry Brent
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9780876267578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArguing on the Toulmin Model
Author: David Hitchcock
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-01-24
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 1402049382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Uses of Argument (1958), Stephen Toulmin proposed a model for the layout of arguments: claim, data, warrant, qualifier, rebuttal, backing. Since then, Toulmin’s model has been appropriated, adapted and extended by researchers in speech communications, philosophy and artificial intelligence. This book assembles the best contemporary reflection in these fields, extending or challenging Toulmin’s ideas in ways that make fresh contributions to the theory of analysing and evaluating arguments.
Interrogating Inequality
Author: Erik Olin Wright
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 298
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis lively new collection from one of America's leading sociologists covers a wide range of theoretical problems of interest to radical social scientists and political activists. The book opens with a fascinating autobiographical essay exploring the challenges and benefits of being a Marxist scholar in the present era. Following this is a discussion of various issues in class analysis, with particular attention being paid to two overarching themes: class and inequality, and the relationship between class and power. The second section of the book engages the problem of socialism as a possible future to capitalism. Wright attempts to clarify the conceptual status of socialism, and discusses why certain reforms such as basic income grants may ultimately require the introduction of some form of socialism for their full realization. Interrogating Inequality concludes by examining the general problem of Marxism as a tradition of radical social theory. Three issues in particular are discussed: the central principles of "analytical Marxism" as a strategy for reconstructing Marxism as a social scientific theory; the relationship between Marxism and feminism as emancipatory social theories; and the prospects for Marxism in the aftermath of the collapse of communist regimes.
Naturalizing Power
Author: Sylvia Yanagisako
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1136652949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays analyzes relations of social inequality that appear to be logical extensions of a "natural order" and in the process demonstrates that a revitalized feminist anthropology of the 1990s has much to offer the field of feminist theory. Contributors:Susan McKinnon, Kath Weston, Rayna Rapp, Janet Dolgin, Harriet Whitehead, Carol Delaney, Brackette Williams, Sylvia Yanagisako, Phyllis Chock, Sherry Ortner and Anna Tsing.
Analytical Studies of the Music of Ashley, Cage, Carter, Dallapiccola, Feldman, Lucier, Reich, Satie, Schoenberg, Wolff, and Xenakis
Author: Thomas DeLio
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781495505928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book collects DeLio's major analytical essays from 1980-2000, all of which are devoted to the music of major 20th century composers with close reading of individual compositions, the range of possibilities presented by each piece, and the way(s) in which one might experience these works..
