Music in Hegel's aesthetics

• Grant number: 16/26130-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: May 01, 2017
• End date: April 30, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Marco Aurélio Werle
• Grantee: Reginaldo Rodrigues Raposo
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The research consists in investigating music in Hegel's philosophy based on a careful review of two texts, the Lectures on Aesthetics and the chapter about the subjective spirit in the third volume of the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences. This review will rest on the observation of the elements mobilised by Hegel during his discourse about this particular art form in his aesthetic system from the point of view of a precise conflict. On one side we have what is formally suited to music as an autonomous activity, i. e., what is related to the peculiar elements which belong to its artisanship (what confers autonomy to its own discourse), and, on the other side, a content capable of inserting musical art specifically in the system, that is, what is essential to music as an artistic activity, in order to bring music closer to the other art forms. From the mobilised concepts in the discourse about music mediated by philosophy, concepts which come from the subjective spirit as depicted in the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences such as sensation, feeling (philosophical anthropology domain), intuition, representation and recollection (philosophical psychology domain), we will look for an understanding beyond the open and unilateral opposition to the more specifically musical elements, which figure also as subtitles in the chapter about music of the Lectures on Aesthetics - "temporal measurement, compass and rhythm", "harmony" and "melody". The effort consists not only in expanding this thought in the context of Hegel's broader philosophy, but also in bringing it to the context of a nascent musicology in the middle of the 19th century, when questions related to musical autonomy were being extensively debated. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

RAPOSO, Reginaldo Rodrigues. Music in Hegel\'s Aesthetics. 2019. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.