VOLUME 10 • 2011
BOOK REVIEWS
Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization Hasana Sharp (McGill University)Chicago-London: University of Chicago Press, 2011, 242 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-75074 Saul KripkeAlan Berger (ed.) (Brandeis University)New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 372 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-85826-7 Arthur Schopenha..
THE ROLE OF SPECIFIC RELIGIOUS LAW WITHIN A PREDOMINANTLY SECULAR LEGAL ORDER
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this article is to gain a deeper understanding of the tensions between the religious law of a specific community and the secular law of the state, religious and secular law in a complex multicultural society, the nature of the secular state, and the role of religion in publi..
ADORNO ON LANGUAGE, MUSIC, AND COMPOSITION
ABSTRACT. The key contribution of this paper is to articulate and give expression to Adorno’s use of spatial conceptions and metaphors in his discussion of music, the objectification of subjectivity in music, the development of musical forces of production, and Adorno’s references to dialectic in re..
MECHANISMS OF MUSICAL EMOTIONS
ABSTRACT. The aim of the present study is to examine and evaluate the joint influences of structural and expressive cues on emotional responses to music, sub- cortical involvement in the auditory processing of emotion, the neural correlates of emotions, the capability of music to evoke activity chan..
ECO’S LITERARY STRATEGY AND HIS EMPHASIS UPON THE ROLE OF THE READER IN THE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE
ABSTRACT. The mainstay of the paper is formed by an analysis of Eco’s interpretive theory, his literary strategy, and the nature of the semiotic universe. The objective of this paper is to emphasize Eco’s sign system of seriality, his theory of semiotics, and textual economy and coherence in Foucaul..
SHAPING METRIC-BASED ASSESSMENTS OF SCHOLARLY IMPACT
ABSTRACT. This study is grounded in the considerable body of scholarship examining citation distributions of scientific papers, bibliometric indicators for scientific excellence or high research performance, and the use of metrics to measure research performance. pp. 168–172 Keywords: journal impac..
THE CREATIVE VALUE OF FOLKLORE
ABSTRACT. The main objective of this paper is to explore and describe the implications of the relational and meaning-making nature of music, the anthropology of music and sound, the ethical responsibilities of the human relationships created through improvised performance, and the idealization of mu..
HEIDEGGER AND THE METAPHYSICS OF DASEIN
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this paper is to gain a deeper understanding of the nexus between Heidegger’s account of conscience, his ontological view of truth, his specific sense of being, his conception of Dasein, and his interest in a particular form of realism. The paper generates insights about Hei..
PEIRCE’S VIEW ON NAMES AND REFERENCE
ABSTRACT. In the present paper, I focus on Peirce’s insights on personhood, his semiotic categorization of proper names, his categorizations of signs, and his semiotic and analytic philosophy of language. In this paper I am particularly interested in exploring Peirce’s understanding of the real, his..
KNOWLEDGE IN MUSIC THEORY BY LOGICAL CONSTANTS OF MELODY
ABSTRACT. The aim of the present study is to examine and evaluate the logic of musical ideas that corresponds to the phenomenological character of music, listeners’ mental representations of sound, and ‘sound’ evaluation of music performers. I am specifically interested in how previous research inve..
RICOEUR’S CRITIQUE OF PHENOMENOLOGY
ABSTRACT. The theory that I shall seek to elaborate here puts considerable emphasis on Ricoeur’s theory of truth, his hermeneutic philosophy, his account of inquiry, his narrative subject, and his thinking about God. In the present paper, I focus on Ricoeur’s discussion of tradition, his discussions..
THE LIBERAL STATE AND ITS SYSTEM OF SECULAR LAW
ABSTRACT. The mainstay of the paper is formed by an analysis of the connections between secular legal thought and Christian doctrine, the specific boundaries and distributions of religious liberties in a secular society, Islamic responses to the modern liberal conception of religious freedom, the Ro..