{"product_id":"red-sea-red-square-red-thread-a-philosophical-detective-story-hardcover","title":"Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread: A Philosophical Detective Story - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLydia Goehr\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA profoundly original philosophical detective story tracing the surprising history of an anecdote ranging across centuries of traditions, disciplines, and ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eRed Sea-Red Square-Red Thread\u003c\/em\u003e is a work of passages taken, written, painted, and sung. It offers a genealogy of liberty through a micrology of wit. It follows 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDesigned as a philosophical detective story, \u003cem\u003eRed Sea-Red Square-Red Thread\u003c\/em\u003e 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 S ren Kierkegaard, the poet and playwright, Henri Murger, the opera composer, Giacomo Puccini, and the painter and print-maker, William Hogarth. Strange companions perhaps, until their use of the anecdote is shown as working its extraordinary passage through so many cosmopolitan cities of art and capital. What about the anecdote brings Danto's \u003cem\u003ephilosophy of art \u003c\/em\u003einto conversation with Kierkegaard's \u003cem\u003estages on life's way\u003c\/em\u003e, with Murger and Puccini's \u003cem\u003ela vie de bohème\u003c\/em\u003e, and with Hogarth's \u003cem\u003emodern moral pictures\u003c\/em\u003e? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book explores narratives of emancipation in philosophy, theology, politics, and the arts. What has the passage of the Israelites to do with the Egyptians who, by many gypsy names, came to be branded as bohemians when arriving in France from the German lands of Bohemia? What have Moses and monotheism to do with the history of monism and the monochrome? And what sort of \u003cem\u003ethread\u003c\/em\u003e connects a \u003cem\u003esea\u003c\/em\u003e to a \u003cem\u003esquare\u003c\/em\u003e when each is so purposefully named red?\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLydia Goehr\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music; The Quest for Voice: Music, Politics, and the Limits of Philosophy; Elective Affinities: Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cbr\u003eco-editor with Daniel Herwitz of \u003cem\u003eThe Don Giovanni Moment: Essays on the Legacy of an Opera\u003c\/em\u003e; and co-editor with Jonathan Gilmore of \u003cem\u003eThe Blackwell Companion to Arthur C. Danto\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 720\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.13 x 9.57 x 6.47 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 10, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52724202438963,"sku":"9780197572443","price":99.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ZmJMdk9ETmpKcTc0ZDFRM0taMXFoZz09.webp?v=1763686715","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/red-sea-red-square-red-thread-a-philosophical-detective-story-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}