Lévi-Strauss, Schaeffer, Wagner: hudební struktura mýtu

• Authors: Fulka Josef

Title variants

EN

LEVI-STRAUSS, SCHAEFFER, WAGNER: THE MUSICAL STRUCTURE OF MYTH

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the present paper is to analyse briefly the complicated references to musical composition in the work of Claude Levi-Strauss. In his monumental tetralogy entitled 'Mythologiques', Levi-Strauss considers the musical composition as a paradigm for structural analysis of myths. In this respect, the author compares Levi-Strauss' position with that of Pierre Schaeffer whose project of the 'concrete music' is strongly criticised by Levi-Strauss. In the second part of the text, Levi-Strauss' structural analysis of Wagner's operas are examined, as well as the criticism addressed to Levi-Strauss by Jean-Jacques Nattiez - universalist pretension and vagueness of the method based upon binary oppositions seems to represent weak points of Levi-Strauss' impressive effort to set new bases for human sciences.

Keywords

EN

CONCRETE MUSIC; METHODOLOGY OF HUMAN SCIENCES; MUSICAL COMPOSITION; STRUCTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; WAGNER RICHARD

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teorie vědy (Theory of Science)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 119-140
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Fulka Josef

• Josef Fulka, Fakulta humanitnich studii Univerzity Karlovy v Praze, U krize 8, Praha 5-Jinonice, 156 00, Czech Republic, http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/5923/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10CZAAAA08335