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Galileo and the ‘Invention’ of Opera

A Study in the Phenomenology of Consciousness

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Fred Kersten

    1. University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, USA

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Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology (CTPH, volume 29)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Intimations of the Gap

    • Fred Kersten
    Pages 1-20

  3. The Gap Represented

    • Fred Kersten
    Pages 21-44

  4. The Gap at the Center

    • Fred Kersten
    Pages 45-78

  5. Room at the Center

    • Fred Kersten
    Pages 79-117

  6. The Room, the Universe And the Gap

    • Fred Kersten
    Pages 119-153

  7. Life at the Gap

    • Fred Kersten
    Pages 155-186

  8. Baroque Twins: Science and Opera: The Fin Lieto of the Baroque Formulation of Consciousness

    • Fred Kersten
    Pages 187-213

  9. The Enclave of the Eccentricity of Ordinary Life

    • Fred Kersten
    Pages 215-233

  10. The Baroque Formulation of Consciousness In The Domain Of Phenomenological Clarification

    • Fred Kersten
    Pages 235-256

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 257-282
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About this book

Intended for scholars in the fields of philosophy, history of science and music, this book examines the legacy of the historical coincidence of the emergence of science and opera in the early modern period. But instead of regarding them as finished products or examining their genesis, or `common ground', or `parallel' ideas, opera and science are explored by a phenomenology of the formulations of consciousness (Gurwitsch) as compossible tasks to be accomplished in common (Schutz) which share an ideal possibility or `essence' (Husserl). Although the ideas of Galileo and Monteverdi form the parameters of the domain of phenomenological clarification, the scope of discussion extends from Classical ideas of science and music down to the beginning of the nineteenth century, but always with reference to the experience of sharing the sociality of a common world from which they are drawn (Plessner) and to which those ideas have given shape, meaning and even substance. At the same time, this approach provides a non-historicist alternative to understanding the arts and science of the modern period by critically clarifying the idea of whether their compossibility can rest on any other formulation of consciousness.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, USA

    Fred Kersten

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Galileo and the ‘Invention’ of Opera

  • Book Subtitle: A Study in the Phenomenology of Consciousness

  • Authors: Fred Kersten

  • Series Title: Contributions to Phenomenology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8931-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4536-7Published: 31 May 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4847-9Published: 15 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8931-4Published: 18 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0923-9545

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1915

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 282

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Phenomenology, Classical Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Music, Fine Arts, Performing Arts

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