The Musical Poetics of the Diapsalmata: Aesthetics, Pathos and Subjectivity in A

• Grant number: 24/07103-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: September 01, 2024
• End date: August 31, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Arlenice Almeida da Silva
• Grantee: Aron Barcelos Vilar Guimaraes
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The present work seeks to examine the constitution of the aesthetic-musical subjectivity of aesthete A - its ambiguities, contradictions, oppositions - in the Diapsalmata of the work Either-Or: A Fragment of Life I, by the Danish author Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), in order to understand the dynamics established between A's existential suffering and his poetic production. The analysis proposed here intends to address both the affective atmosphere present in A's fragments and its relevance in the constitution of his aesthetic-musical subjectivity, as well as the way in which reality is appropriated through this subjectivity, responsible for creating a disenchanted and passive personality. The category of Jeg (I), in Kierkegaard, is something mobile, and the Kierkegaardian I is based on becoming. The existing and finite individual, anchored in infinity, is faced with the many possibilities of an existential plane in constant expansion, a becoming that constantly compels him to make choices. Such choices seek to express, in the midst of the existential drama, the fact that the Self is responsible for carrying out something decisive, that is, showing itself absolutely interested in its own eternal happiness. Therefore, they may or may not be inserted in a dynamic that transcends the temporality of reality, i.e., that produce a meaning that goes beyond the present time and launches the individual into the eternal, a locus where, precisely, the aesthete fails, thus falling into many dispositions that arouse, mainly, feelings of grief, boredom and melancholy.