Andy Hamilton teaches philosophy, and also aesthetics of jazz, at Durham University, UK. He is the author of Aesthetics and Music (2007) and Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art (2007). With Peter Cheyne and Max Paddison, he is co-editor of The Philosophy of Rhythm (2019). He also contributes to The Wire, Jazz Journal and International Piano.

'A gifted philosopher, music critic and jazz performer, Andy Hamilton has produced a book which leaves neither the philosophy nor the music out. He guides us deftly through the aesthetics of Kant and Adorno without neglecting the reality of music as sound and rhythm, improvisation and composition, showing in an unusually open-minded, lively way - and in philosophical depth - how aesthetic experience is universal and human.' Professor John Skorupski, St Andrews University, UK

• 1. Aesthetics and Music in Ancient Greece  2. The Concept of Music3. The Aesthetics of Form, the Aesthetics of Expression, and 'Absolute Music': aesthetics of music in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries 4. The Sound of Music5. Rhythm and Time 6. Adorno and Modernism: Music as autonomous and 'social fact'7. Improvisation and CompositionBibliographyIndex

Andy Hamilton teaches philosophy, and also aesthetics of jazz, at Durham University, UK. He is the author of Aesthetics and Music (2007) and Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art (2007). With Peter Cheyne and Max Paddison, he is co-editor of The Philosophy of Rhythm (2019). He also contributes to The Wire, Jazz Journal and International Piano.

'A gifted philosopher, music critic and jazz performer, Andy Hamilton has produced a book which leaves neither the philosophy nor the music out. He guides us deftly through the aesthetics of Kant and Adorno without neglecting the reality of music as sound and rhythm, improvisation and composition, showing in an unusually open-minded, lively way - and in philosophical depth - how aesthetic experience is universal and human.' Professor John Skorupski, St Andrews University, UK

• 1. Aesthetics and Music in Ancient Greece  2. The Concept of Music3. The Aesthetics of Form, the Aesthetics of Expression, and 'Absolute Music': aesthetics of music in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries 4. The Sound of Music5. Rhythm and Time 6. Adorno and Modernism: Music as autonomous and 'social fact'7. Improvisation and CompositionBibliographyIndex

Andy Hamilton teaches philosophy, and also aesthetics of jazz, at Durham University, UK. He is the author of Aesthetics and Music (2007) and Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art (2007). With Peter Cheyne and Max Paddison, he is co-editor of The Philosophy of Rhythm (2019). He also contributes to The Wire, Jazz Journal and International Piano.

'A gifted philosopher, music critic and jazz performer, Andy Hamilton has produced a book which leaves neither the philosophy nor the music out. He guides us deftly through the aesthetics of Kant and Adorno without neglecting the reality of music as sound and rhythm, improvisation and composition, showing in an unusually open-minded, lively way - and in philosophical depth - how aesthetic experience is universal and human.' Professor John Skorupski, St Andrews University, UK

• 1. Aesthetics and Music in Ancient Greece  2. The Concept of Music3. The Aesthetics of Form, the Aesthetics of Expression, and 'Absolute Music': aesthetics of music in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries 4. The Sound of Music5. Rhythm and Time 6. Adorno and Modernism: Music as autonomous and 'social fact'7. Improvisation and CompositionBibliographyIndex