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Musicology and Intellectual History: A Backward Glance to the Year 1885

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1984

Bojan Bujic
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In 1892 Bernard Bosanquet wrote:

As the true value of German idealism in general philosophy was never understood, till the genius of English naturalists had revolutionised our conception of the organic world, so the spirit of German aesthetic will not be appreciated until the work of its founders shall have been renewed by the direct appreciative sense of English art and criticism.

As a Hegelian, Bosanquet had every reason to believe in the strength of the German idealist tradition, even if its supremacy was seriously challenged in the second half of the nineteenth century; as an Englishman, and brought up in the English philosophical tradition, he was fully aware of the important British contribution to both speculative and experimental psychology. However, bringing various intellectual and philosophical traditions together is no easy task and we can witness a continuing division in the orientation of many scholars who, although not philosophers themselves, felt the need to strengthen their critical theories with ideas which originated in the domain of philosophy.

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Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association , Volume 111 , 1984 , pp. 139 - 154
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal Musical Association and the Authors

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