{"id":1028,"date":"2014-09-08T10:43:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T14:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2014-09-08T10:43:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T14:43:31","slug":"songs-without-music-aesthetic-dimensions-of-law-and-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/songs-without-music-aesthetic-dimensions-of-law-and-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs without music : aesthetic dimensions of law and justice."},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest post by K. Joan Harrison<\/p>\n

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One of the most interesting theses I have come across is an interdisciplinary thesis written by Desmond Manderson for the Doctor of Civil Laws degree in 1997.<\/p>\n

Abstract: \u201cSongs without music\u201d is about aesthetics, law, and justice.\u00a0 It is written in a creative and novel manner, as explained in the abstract: \u201cI attempt to develop my argument by aesthetic as well as rational means. Music is the focus for this. Each chapter is based on a different musical form, and each uses music as comparison and metaphor. But more than this, in different ways and in different styles, each chapter embodies a complex of aesthetic resonances which relate to the argument the thesis develops. Songs Without Music has been designed not only to talk about aesthetic meaning, but to embody it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The table of contents is divided into phrases, bars, and units \u2013 each with a musical theme.\u00a0 Dr. Manderson went on to publish Songs Without Music : Aesthetic dimensions of law and justice<\/i><\/a> in 2000, and taught for ten years at McGill before moving to the Australian National University (\u201cProfessor Desmond Manderson,\u201d Australian National University, last modified August 21, 2014, https:\/\/researchers.anu.edu.au\/researchers\/manderson-dra<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Table of contents. Manderson, D. (1996). Songs without music: Aesthetic dimensions of law and justice.<\/p><\/div>\n

K. Joan Harrison\u00a0is a McGill School of Information Studies student who has been working with the Digitization & Delivery team this summer to digitize and upload McGill theses to eScholarship<\/a>, our open access institutional repository.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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