Music and the Origins of Language
Theories from the French Enlightenment
- Author: Thomas, Downing A.
Thomas distills these and far more recondite arguments with admirable clarity, and, what is more, he persuades the non-philosophically inclined reader of the relevance of his investigation —
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Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Music and language
- 2. Origins
- 3. Music theory and the genealogy of knowledge in Condillac's Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines
- 4. Music and original loss in Rousseau's Essai sur l'origine des langues
- 5. Sensible sounds: music and theories of the passions
- Conclusion
- Biography
- Index.
