Cambridge University Press Cambridge Romantic Music Aesthetics - Politics of Emotion Book

Explore the connection between politics and emotion in this scholarly work from Cambridge University Press. Romantic Music Aesthetics: Creating a Politics of Emotion reassesses how music shapes social and cultural feelings. By combining insights from the history of emotions, cultural history, and philosophical idealism, the text introduces the concept of affective relationality. This study examines how music channels emotion through social and cultural synergies. It looks at how concepts like theatrical illusion, genius, and poetic criticism created new spaces for audience feelings. The book also covers the connection of art to mythology and religion through the perspectives of thinkers such as Rousseau, Herder, Germaine de Stael, and Joseph Mainz.