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On Settling

On Settling Common Knowledge 20:2 © 2014 by Duke University Press Common KnoWLEDgE immediately involves one in the trickiest problems of psychology, social theory, and political philosophy. Goodin's book, however, makes admirably clear that fascinating results must be expected from a more sustained and systematic analysis of settling. Let us hope that this book will prove to have been a preliminary exercise of such a future study by Goodin! --Frank Ankersmit doi 10.1215/0961754X-2422989 Roger Freitas, Portrait of a Castrato: Politics, Patronage, and Music in the Life of Atto Melani (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 431 pp. Discussions of opera or of the cantata in the scholarly literature revolve ever more strongly around the protagonists of performance, particularly the singers whose physical accomplishments we treasure when we enjoy their art. Indeed, concern for singers and their accomplishments has often permitted scholars to ignore what the virtuosos are singing or to examine it principally from a viewpoint that composers such as Verdi would have scorned (Verdi would not sanction even a phrase such as "singer Y created role X": as far as he was concerned, only the composer created a role.) No bodies have fascinated modern authors more than those of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

On Settling

Ankersmit, F.
Common Knowledge , Volume 20 (2) – Mar 20, 2014
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Common Knowledge 20:2 © 2014 by Duke University Press Common KnoWLEDgE immediately involves one in the trickiest problems of psychology, social theory, and political philosophy. Goodin's book, however, makes admirably clear that fascinating results must be expected from a more sustained and systematic analysis of settling. Let us hope that this book will prove to have been a preliminary exercise of such a future study by Goodin! --Frank Ankersmit doi 10.1215/0961754X-2422989 Roger Freitas, Portrait of a Castrato: Politics, Patronage, and Music in the Life of Atto Melani (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 431 pp. Discussions of opera or of the cantata in the scholarly literature revolve ever more strongly around the protagonists of performance, particularly the singers whose physical accomplishments we treasure when we enjoy their art. Indeed, concern for singers and their accomplishments has often permitted scholars to ignore what the virtuosos are singing or to examine it principally from a viewpoint that composers such as Verdi would have scorned (Verdi would not sanction even a phrase such as "singer Y created role X": as far as he was concerned, only the composer created a role.) No bodies have fascinated modern authors more than those of the

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Published: Mar 20, 2014

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