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876Wittgenstein on musical depth and our knowledge of humankindIn Garry L. Hagberg (ed.), Wittgenstein on Aesthetic Understanding, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 217-247. 2017.Wittgenstein’s later remarks on music, those written after his return to Cambridge in 1929 in increasing intensity, frequency, and elaboration, occupy a unique place in the annals of the philosophy of music, which is rarely acknowledged or discussed in the scholarly literature. These remarks reflect and emulate the spirit and subject matter of Romantic thinking about music, but also respond to it critically, while at the same time they interweave into Wittgenstein’s forward thinking about the ph…Read more
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595Ornamentality in the New MediaIn Anat Biletzki (ed.), Hues of Philosophy: Essays in Memory of Ruth Manor, College Publications. pp. 83-96. 2010.Ornamentality is pervasive in the new media and it is related to their essential characteristics: dispersal, hypertextuality, interactivity, digitality and virtuality. I utilize Kendall Walton's theory of ornamentality in order to construe a puzzle pertaining to the new media. the ornamental erosion of information. I argue that insofar as we use the new media as conduits of real life, the excessive density of ornamental devices which is prevalent in certain new media environments, forces us to c…Read more
Eran Guter
Max Stern Yezreel Valley College
University of Haifa
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Max Stern Yezreel Valley CollegeInterdisciplinary Social SciencesSenior Lecturer
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University of HaifaResearcher
Areas of Specialization
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Aesthetics |
European Philosophy |
Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Philosophy of Music |
Aesthetics and Culture |
Topics in Aesthetics |