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Music and the Ineffable by Vladimir Jankélévitch is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Music and the Ineffable about?
The classic work on the philosophy of music—now available in English to a new generation of readersVladimir Jankélévitch left behind a remarkable body of work steeped as much in philosophy as in music. His writings on moral quandaries reflect a lifelong devotion to music and performance, and, as a counterpoint, he wrote on music aesthetics and on modernist composers such as Fauré, Debussy, and Ravel. Music and the Ineffable brings together these two threads, the philosophical and the musical, as an extraordinary quintessence of his thought. Jankélévitch deals with classical issues in the philosophy of music, including metaphysics and ontology. These are a point of departure for a sustained examination and dismantling of the idea of musical hermeneutics in its conventional sense.Music, Jankélévitch argues, is not a hieroglyph, not a language or sign system; nor does it express emotions, depict landscapes or cultures, or narrate. On the other hand, music cannot be imprisoned within the icy, morbid notion of pure structure or autonomous discourse. Yet if musical works are not a cipher awaiting the decoder, music is nonetheless entwined with human experience, and with the physical, ma
Who reads Music and the Ineffable?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Vladimir Jankélévitch
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691090474
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Music, Philosophy, Arts