Max Paddison

Max Paddison is Emeritus Professor of Music and Aesthetics in the Music Department and Associate Member of the Philosophy Department at Durham University. His research specialisms are in critical theory, and the philosophy of music. He is the author of Adorno’s Aesthetics of Music (Cambridge University Press, 1993), and Adorno, Modernism and Mass Culture (Kahn & Averill, 1996). Relevant book chapters and journal articles include “Die vermittelte Unmittelbarkeit der Musik”, in Becker & Vogel (eds.), Musikalischer Sinn (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2007, 175-236), and “Mimesis and the Aesthetics of Musical Expression”, in Music Analysis, Vol. 29, (2010, 126-148). He is also joint editor (with Hamilton and Cheyne) of the book The Philosophy of Rhythm (Oxford University Press, 2019).