Philosophical Perspectives on Ruins, Monuments, and Memorials

The essays in this volume consider our relationship to physical objects that invoke, commemorate, and honor the past.

Author: Jeanette Bicknell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 07/30/2019
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781138504691

About the Author

Jeanette Bicknell is an independent scholar based in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Philosophy of Song and Singing: An Introduction (2015) and Why Music Moves Us (2009).

Jennifer Judkins is a retired Adjunct Professor of Music at UCLA and has twice served as a Trustee for the American Society for Aesthetics. Recently, she authored two articles in then Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music (2011), and was a guest editor and contributor to the "Symposium on Ruin and Absence" in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (2014).

Carolyn Korsmeyer is Research Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo. Her recent books include Things: In Touch with the Past (2019) and Savoring Disgust: The Foul and the Fair in Aesthetics (2011). She is a past president of the American Society for Aesthetics.