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Music and the Ineffable
Vladimir Jankélévitch
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Description for Music and the Ineffable
Hardback. Deals with classical issues in the philosophy of music, including metaphysics and ontology. This book argues that music is not a hieroglyph, nor a language or sign system. It argues that music is 'ineffable', because it cannot be pinned down, and has a capacity to engender limitless resonance in several domains. Translator(s): Abbate, Carolyn. Num Pages: 200 pages, 7 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
Vladimir Jankelevitch left behind a remarkable ?uvre 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 Faure, Debussy, and Ravel. Music and the Ineffable brings together these two threads, the philosophical and the musical, as an extraordinary quintessence of his thought. Jankelevitch 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 ... Read more
Vladimir Jankelevitch left behind a remarkable ?uvre 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 Faure, Debussy, and Ravel. Music and the Ineffable brings together these two threads, the philosophical and the musical, as an extraordinary quintessence of his thought. Jankelevitch 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
352g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691090474
SKU
V9780691090474
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About Vladimir Jankélévitch
Vladimir Jankelevitch (1903-1985), a critical figure in twentieth-century French philosophy, held the Chair in Moral Philosophy at the Sorbonne from 1951 to 1978. He was the author of more than twenty books on philosophy, as well as a number of books on music. Carolyn Abbate is Professor of Music at Princeton University. She is the author of "In Search of ... Read more
Reviews for Music and the Ineffable
"Among significant influences in 20th-century philosophical thought on music, perhaps none is as sweeping as that of Vladimir Jankelevitch. Yet until now his works have not been widely available in English... Still provocative after 40 years, this book offers fascinating, fresh, and Occasionally befuddling perspectives on the vital phenomenon that is music."
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