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Informationen zum Autor By Robin James Klappentext The Conjectural Body combines continental philosophy with musicology, popular music studies, and feminist, critical race, and postcolonial theories to offer a unique perspective on issues of gender, race, and the philosophy of music. It is one of the few books in philosophy to take popular music seriously, and is one of the few books in continental feminism to privilege music over the visual. Zusammenfassung The Conjectural Body combines continental philosophy with musicology! popular music studies! and feminist! critical race! and postcolonial theories to offer a unique perspective on issues of gender! race! and the philosophy of music. It is one of the few books in philosophy to take popular music seriously! and is one of the few books in continental feminism to privilege music over the visual. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part 1. Conjecture and Resonating Bodies Chapter 3 Chapter 1. On Popular Music in Postcolonial Theory Chapter 4 Chapter 2. Conjectural Histories, Conjectural Harmonies: On political and musical "nature" in Rousseau's early writings Chapter 5 Chapter 3. Conjecture and the Impossible Opera: From the Thought Specular to the Society of the Spectacle Part 6 Part 2. Fetishism, Abjection, and the Feminized Popular Chapter 7 Chapter 4. "Smells Like Booty": Pop music and the logic of abjection Chapter 8 Chapter 5. "What is it that my whole body really expects of music?": Nietzsche and the feminized popular Chapter 9 Epilogue
