Philip E Stoltzfus, . Theology as Performance: Music, Aesthetics, and God in Western Thought. New York: T&T Clark, 2006. xii+284 pp. $130.00 (cloth).

The penultimate chapter explores a major conjunction between literary and music aesthetics in the period. The first section shows how Olson and the New York School of music began to address, in 1950, the problem of the artist’s unwanted presence in the work of art. The following sections reveal that Olson and the composers found similar formal solutions to this problem, foregrounding individual sound units with new forms of spatial notation that relied upon ‘composition by field’. Anxieties about the interfering ‘ego’ were rooted, the chapter suggests, in contemporary critiques of the organizing, Enlightenment intellect and reflected the avant-garde’s commitment to uncertainty and immediacy.

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The Calabrian Abbot: Joachim of Fiore in the History of Western Thought. By Bernard McGinn. New York: Macmillian Publishing Company, 1985. xix + 261 pp. $24.95.

Church History ◽

10.2307/3166382 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 55 (4) ◽

pp. 515-516

Author(s):

Karl F. Morrison

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Publishing Company ◽

Western Thought ◽

History Of ◽

Joachim Of Fiore

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The Calabrian Abbot: Joachim of Fiore in the History of Western Thought. By Bernard McGinn. New York: Macmillan, 1985. xix + 261 pages. $24.95.

Horizons ◽

10.1017/s0360966900037324 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 154-155

Author(s):

Gary Macy

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Western Thought ◽

History Of ◽

Joachim Of Fiore

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The Idea of Progress. By Charles Van Doren. [Concepts in Western Thought Series, Institute for Philosophical Research.] (New York: Frederick A. Praeger. 1967. Pp. xvii, 497. $7.95)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/73.5.1472 ◽

1968 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Western Thought

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M. Thomas Bailey, Reconstruction in Indian Territory. A Story of Avarice, Discrimination, and Opportunism (Port Washington, New York and London: Kennikat Press, National University Publications Series in American Studies, 1972, $11.50). Pp. 225. - Virginia Cole Trenholm, The Arapahoes, Our People (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970 and 1972, $8.95 and £4·50). Pp. xviii, 372. - Harold P. Howard, Sacajawea (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971 and 1972, $4.95 and £2·50). Pp. xiii, 218. - Edward Dudley and Maximillian E. Novak, Editors, The Wild Man Within. An Image in Western Thought from the Renaissance to Romanticism (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972 and 1973, $11.95). Pp. xi, 333.

Journal of American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021875800013815 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 117-119

Author(s):

Christine Bolt

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

American Studies ◽

Indian Territory ◽

Western Thought ◽

University Of Pittsburgh ◽

University Of Oklahoma ◽

Wild Man ◽

National University

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Alessandro Guetta. Philosophy and Kabbalah: Elijah Benamozegh and the Reconciliation of Western Thought and Jewish Esotericism. Trans. Helena Kahan. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. 237 pp.

AJS Review ◽

10.1017/s0364009410000103 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 135-137

Author(s):

Jonathan Dauber

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

State University ◽

Western Thought

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The Essay Film and its Global Contexts: Conversations on Forms and Practices

World Cinema and the Essay Film ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474429245.003.0002 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 21-35

Author(s):

Laura Rascaroli ◽

Nguyen Trinh Thi ◽

Bo Wang ◽

Susana Barriga

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Human Subject ◽

World Society ◽

Western Thought ◽

Moving Image

Based on interviews she conducted with Cuban filmmaker and theorist Susana Barriga, Hanoi-based filmmaker and moving image artist Nguyen Trinh Thi and New York-based artist and filmmaker Bo Wang, essay film theorist Laura Rascaroli investigates the ways global artists who call their films ‘essays’, or whose work has been labelled as such by art institutions, think of their practice in light of this somewhat ambiguous term. Rascaroli is interested in what these non-Western-born artists have to say about a form that has been conceptualised by heavily drawing on Western thought and according to Enlightenment categories of Self, human subject, world/society and the role of the artist. As these interviews confirm, the essay film emerges as a privileged meeting ground of different impulses and hybrid influences.

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