Muzyka jako projekcja świata. Symbol w polu pojęć pokrewnych w myśleniu muzykologicznym

• Authors: Polony Leszek

Title variants

EN

Music as a Projection of World

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This paper presents an evolution of the concepts of “symbol” and “metaphor” from Arnold Schering to Michael Spitzer. The two notions compete in Schering, although symbol, understood as “a musical image of spiritual sense”, ultimately achieves a slight ascendancy. The evolution and a certain convergence of the two concepts in the previous century is seen by the author of these remarks as a symptom of crisis of metaphysical thought in its traditional, “ontotheological” variety and an indication of a shift in the domain of the meaning of a work of music from ontological “epiphany” towards epistemological “world image”. In the face of this change, any attempt at a redefinition of the two concepts seem s cognitively futile and hopeless. Instead of symbol or metaphor in a set and defined sense, it makes more sense to speak in terms of symbolic thinking (Eliade) or metaphoric projection (Spitzer). In his criticism of mechanical transfer of concepts of general theory of sign into musicology and the doomed attempts of systemizing musical signs, the author postulates a holistic approach to the work of musical work or to the phenomenon of historical style. This is only possible through a historically based combination of the hermeneutic and the analytical semiotic perspective.

Keywords

EN

symbol; metaphor; A. Schering; M. Spitzer; musicology

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Estetyka i Krytyka
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 1(20)
• Pages: 137-150

Dates

published

2011

Contributors

author

Polony Leszek

• Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie

Identifiers

ISSN

1643-1243