The Foundations of Twentieth Century Music

Foundations of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century

1. INTRODUCTION AND EARLY DEVELOPMENTS. Logic and foundations are a domain of mathematics concerned with basic mathematical structures (in terms of which one can define all other mathematical structures), with the correctness and significance of mathematical reasoning, and with the effectiveness of mathematical computations. In the twentieth century, these areas have crystallized into three lar...

Related trends in music and painting of the twentieth century

ions exist in their own neutral field, usually b~ack, grey or white, a kind of cosmic space capable of infinite extension. The picture frame cuts into this space -it does not limit it. Now a work of art must have coherence. Two principles of organization, giving coherence to the modern work of art, seem to stand out to the observer. The first of these is that the forms within the work interact ...

The "Anxiety of Influence" in Twentieth-Century Music

Muslim Intellectuals and the Perennial Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

This paper will examine how Muslim intellectuals, as a result of their attachment to the doctrine of Divine Unity (taw¤hīd), the Quran, Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad, and the doctrines and methods of Sufism, were largely responsible for the restating of the perennial philosophy in the West in the twentieth century. The article consists of four sections: an introduction to the term 'philosophia...

The Twentieth Century

The articles, representing different schools of thought, include such subjects as "Sickness or Sin?" by Barbara Wooton; "The Rooted Sorrow" by Dr. Emanuel Miller; and "Psycho-Pathology in Industrial Life" by Elliott Jacques; two others poignantly describe conditions in individual mental hospitals as experienced by an ex-patient, and by a male mental nurse. All the articles are written designedl...