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020			_a9780197572443
040			_arda _bEnglish _cMSULIB _erda
050	0	0	_aHM1266 GOE
100	1		_aGoehr, Lydia. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aRed Sea-red square-red thread : _ba philosophical detective story / _ccreated by Lydia Goehr.
264		1	_bOxford University Press, _c2022
264		4	_c©2022
300			_axlii, 677 pages : _billustrations (some coloured) ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aPart I 1. Thought Experiment 2. Emancipation Narrative 3. From Sea to Square to Sea Part II 4. Passages of Bohème 5. Testament and Table 6. Contesting Opera 7. Sea Scenes 8. Between Fact and Fiction Part III 9. Refiguring Exodus 10. Bohemia-​Bohemian-​Bohème 11. Egyptian-​Jewish Bohème 12. Mastering the Cant in Cafés of Complaint Part IV 13. Reds of Art and War 14. Grey Days for a Gay Science 15. Proverbs on the Path to the Absolute 16. Thought Experiments in Color 17. Red Thread Part V 18. Painter of Moods, Poverties, and Professions 19. Street Signs of Libation and Liberation 20. Spreading the Anecdote 21. Tying the Knot Bibliography (Non-​Fiction since 1900) Index
520			_a"RED SEA-RED SQUARE-RED THREAD is a work of passages taken, written, painted, and sung. It offers a genealogy of liberty through a micrology of wit. It follows a very long history of a very short anecdote. Commissioned to depict the biblical passage through the Red Sea, a painter covered over a surface with red paint, explaining thereafter that the Israelites had already crossed over and that the Egyptians were drowned. Clearly, not all you see is all you get. Who was the painter and who the first teller of the tale? Designed as a philosophical detective story, the book follows the extraordinarily many thinkers and artists who have used the Red Sea anecdote to make so much more than a merely anecdotal point. Leading the large cast are the philosophers, Arthur Danto and Søren Kierkegaard, the poet and playwright, Henri Murger, the opera composer, Giacomo Puccini, and the painter and print-maker, William Hogarth. Strange companions perhaps, until their use of the anecdote is shown as working its extraordinary passage through so many cosmopolitan cities of art and capital. What about the anecdote brings Danto's philosophy of art into conversation with Kierkegaard's stages on life's way, with Murger and Puccini's la vie de bohème, and with Hogarth's modern moral pictures? The book explores narratives of emancipation in philosophy, theology, politics, and the arts. What has the passage of the Israelites to do with the Egyptians who, by many gypsy names, came to be branded as bohemians when arriving in France from the German lands of Bohemia? What have Moses and monotheism to do with the history of monism and the monochrome? And what sort of thread connects a sea to a square when each is so purposefully named red?"--
650		0	_aLiberty.
650		0	_aIsraelites crossing the Red Sea (Biblical event) _xMiscellanea.
650		0	_aArts _xPhilosophy.
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