Saturday, October 8, 2011

article on Whitehead and music

"A Whiteheadian Aesthetic and a Musical Paradigm" 

by Richard Elfyn Jones 


A Whiteheadian Aesthetic and a Musical Paradigm" attempts to explore the influence of Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy in the context of a fragment of music by J.S.Bach. The paper then proceeds, at a more abstract metaphysical level, to relate the aesthetic and artistic implications of the musical analysis to ultimate considerations, involving God.