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• Authors: Jagna Dankowska
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The text attempts to answer the question whether musicians need a philosophy of music. The answer to the question of what music contributes to philosophy - a question superordinate in relation to the investigations of the links between philosophy and music - can be formulated clearly, since we find it in the texts of the most prominent representatives of European philosophical thought, including Schopenhauer, whose ideas are discussed in the paper. These issues are also discussed in literature which explores philosophical issues, by such classics of the genre as Thomas Mann and Herman Hesse, whose profound descriptions bring us closer to an understanding of that which music does directly, by expressing spheres beyond words that cannot be expressed otherwise than through music. Karl Popper regards polyphony as the greatest discovery of European culture, and provides evidence of the closeness of science and philosophy. These three levels of approaching the relationship between philosophy and music lead to demonstrating the axiological essence of music, revealed by performers, who make it possible for music to exist to the full in its sonority, unveiling its metaphysical perfection to its listeners.

Keywords

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philosophy of music; subjectivism; objectivism; authenticity; perfection; mass culture; higher values

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 183-189

Dates

published

2018-10-17

Contributors

author

Jagna Dankowska

• Ph.D., postdoctoral degree in philosophy at the Warsaw University, sound engineer at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music — AMFC and Professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. From 1991 to 2005 she was the head of the Unit of Humanities and Foreign Languages (now the Chair of Humanities). She was also the deputy vice-dean from 2002 to 2005 and dean from 2005 to 2008 of the Department of Composition, Conducting and Theory of Music. In 2008 she was elected pro-rector for Students' and Foreign Affairs for term 2008-2012. She specializes in the philosophy of music, particularly nineteenth-century German philosophy of music as well as Polish philosophy and aesthetics of music. She is the author of the books The Foundańons o f Philosophy o f Music and German lgth Century Philosophy and Music Aesthetics (Warsaw 2001) as well as many articles on the philosophy and aesthetics of music.