Red Sea - Red Square - Red Thread. A Philosophical Detective Story

Nationwide arts festival celebrating refugees from Nazi Europe and their contribution to British cultureMarch 2020 marked the official end of the festival, but also the beginning of a longer-term commitment to celebrating the impact of this remarkable generation of émigrés under the Insiders/Outsiders umbrella

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New book by leading scholar Lydia Goehr, in conversation with Steven Gerrard and Daniel Herwitz.

Lydia Goehr, leading scholar in philosophy of music, history, and aesthetic theory, in conversation with Steven Gerrard and Daniel Herwitz. Lydia Goehr, Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, NYC and part of an eminent émigré musical family, will be in conversation with Steven Gerrard, Professor of Philosophy at Williams College, Massachusetts and Daniel Herwitz, Professor of Philosophy, History of Art and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, about her startlingly original new book <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/red-sea-red-square-red-thread-9780197572443?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Red Sea - Red Square - Red Thread. A Philosophical Detective Story</a>.The book explores narratives of emancipation in philosophy, theology, politics and the arts by following the long history of a 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, Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread follows the extraordinary number of 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.OUP is offering a 30% discount on Lydia’s book. Type in code AAFLYG6 when ordering online <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/red-sea-red-square-red-thread-9780197572443?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.
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