Music, Time, and Its Other: Aesthetic Reflections on Finitude, Temporality, and Alterity

ISBN-13: 9781138679665 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 232 str.

Roger W. H. Savage

Opis

Music, Time, and Its Other explores the relation between the enigmatic character of our temporal experiences and music's affective power. By taking account of competing concepts of time, this book explains how music revalues time through staking out the borderlines between time and eternity. Savage examines a range of musical expressions that reply to the deficiency born from the difference between time and an order that exceeds or surpasses it. His reflections on music's power to affect our sense of time, and on the force that the present has with respect to the initiatives that we take, highlight the way that music augments our everyday understandings and inclinations. He shows by example how the affective tonalities of works by Bach, Carolan, Debussy, Schoenberg, Messiaen, and Glass impact our understanding of our temporal condition. Savage's account of music's significance is the staging ground for his investigations into the relation between aesthetics and politics. His book sets out a new approach to music's affective power, its creative and subversive force, and the communicability of experiences that open new paths for thinking, feeling, and acting.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Music and time  2. The myth of Syrinx  3. To the glory of God  4. Hope’s despair  5. Figure of solicitude  6. The ends of time  7. Mimesis, aesthetic experience, and politics

O autorze

Roger W. H. Savage is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. His publications include Hermeneutics and Music Criticism and the edited volume Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason: Poetics, Praxis and Critique. He was a Fulbright Scholar and a Moore Institute Visiting Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Galway.