Socrates thought philosophy’s role was to prepare us for death, yet most doctrines largely omit the experience and meaning of grief – of dealing with the death of a loved one. Music, and aesthetics mo

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Philosophers have had surprisingly little to say about the experience and meaning of grief. In this interview, Kathleen Higgins rights that wrong and argues that grief has a deep connection to art, especially music, in the way it disrupts but also reorients our relationship to the world and others.

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