About author:Kathleen Higgins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Her main areas of research are aesthetics, philosophy of music, continental philosophy, and philosophy of emotion. She is author of several books, including The Music between Us: Is Music a Universal Language? (University of Chicago, 2012) and The Music of our Lives (revised edition, Lexington, 2011). She has edited or co-edited several other books, including From Africa to Zen: An Invitation to World Philosophy and World Philosophy: A Text with Readings, both with Robert C. Solomon. She is currently working on a book on the aesthetics of loss and mourning.