Guy Dammann
Researcher at Filosofiska institutionen; Estetik; Anställda
- E-mail:
- guy.dammann@filosofi.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3 H
- Postal address:
- Box 627
751 26 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Research interests include Philosophy of Music and Aesthetics, Music Criticism, Contemporary Music, Opera, Music and Ideas in Eighteenth-Century France. I am currently researching a book on the history and meaning of music criticism and its relation to the idea of music as art.
I work as a music and opera critic, primarily for the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian (UK).
Biography
I was educated at the University of Oxford (MA, 1994) and at King's College, London (MMus 1999, PhD 2006). My doctoral thesis investigated the relation between Jean-Jacques Rousseau's musical theories and his moral philosophy, and was entitled "The Morality of Musical Imitation in Jean-Jacques Rousseau" (pdf available here).
I became a journalist in 2006, specialising in music and culture, and have worked as a music critic for the Guardian since 2008 and as the main opera critic of the Times Literary Supplement since 2009. From 2009 to 2014 I also taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
I am married to the philosopher Elisabeth Schellekens with whom I have two children, Cecilia and Gabriel.
Publications
Selection of publications
- Aesthetic Understanding and Epistemic Agency in Art (2021)
- Absolute programme music (2017)
- On The Moral Psychology and Normative Force Of Aesthetic Reasons (2017)
- Opera and the Limits of Philosophy: (2010)
- The Morality of Musical Imitation in Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2006)
- «Sonate, que me veux-tu?»: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Problem of Instrumental Music (2005)
Recent publications
- A stage of their own (2023)
- The death of a child (2023)
- The end of the world as they know it (2023)
- Disruptive aesthetics, compliant art (2022)
- Massacre of the innocents (2022)
All publications
Articles
- A stage of their own (2023)
- The death of a child (2023)
- The end of the world as they know it (2023)
- Massacre of the innocents (2022)
- An offer that can’t be refused (2022)
- Aesthetic Understanding and Epistemic Agency in Art (2021)
- Anthropocene (2019)
- E lucevan le stelle (2019)
- On the infinite sea (2019)
- Whitsun Festival (2019)
- Happily ever after (2019)
- A Dinner Engagement (2019)
- DONNERSTAG AUS LICHT Royal Festival Hall (2019)
- Lessons in love and life (2019)
- Angels and demons (2019)
- E lucevan le stele (2019)
- Memories of life (2019)
- Excess all arias? (2019)
- Systems of harmony and colour (2018)
- VANESSA (2018)
- Letters gone astray (2018)
- Mythical spaces (2018)
- Embroidery of inestimable value (2018)
- Freedom and passion, not peace (2018)
- PELLEAS AND MELISANDE (2018)
- How they came to be where they are (2018)
- Gilt-laden memories (2018)
- Sugar, spice and ginger (2018)
- Letters gone astray (2018)
- Absolute Music (2017)
- The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (2017)
- The ex factor (2017)
- Madam Butterfly (2017)
- Verismo in action (2017)
- Absolute programme music (2017)
- The music of time (2017)
- BEING WAGNER (2017)
- THE RING OF TRUTH (2017)
- Hamlet (2017)
- The impact of kitsch (2017)
- Review: L'Invisible (2017)
- In the beginning was the deed (2017)
- Marnie (2017)
- Puccini - La Boheme (2017)
- On The Moral Psychology and Normative Force Of Aesthetic Reasons (2017)
- Shostakovich THE NOSE (2016)
- Don Giovanni (2016)
- NORMA (2016)
- Passing fancy and passionate intensity (2016)
- Cyborgs and psychopaths (2016)
- Romantic Fictions (2016)
- Trapped in the machinery (2015)
- Out of the Shadows (2015)
- Shifts and Shocks (2015)
- The Corridor / The Cure (2015)
- Sacrificial Acts (2015)
- Not so subtle tragedies (2015)
- The power of song (2015)
- Nightmare heroics (2015)
- Gods and monsters (2014)
- A Passion beyond our reach (2014)
- Lions and villains (2014)
- Operatic Pile-Ups (2014)
- Earth-bound emotion (2014)
- Fishing for Arias (2014)
- Unstable Frustrations (2014)
- Gardening Classes (2014)
- Carnival and commedia (2014)
- Inconceivable Grace (2014)
- A fair hearing (2014)
- Opera and the Limits of Philosophy: (2010)
- «Sonate, que me veux-tu?»: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Problem of Instrumental Music (2005)
Books
Chapters
- Oedipus and Free Will (2016)
- Freedom Obtained Through Love (2014)
- “Almost Miraculous”: Britten’s Music for Orchestra (2013)