Mot det rena ljudets filosofi: En studie om musikens språklikhet
2021 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (university diploma), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesisAlternative title
Towards the Philosophy of Pure Sound : A Study on Music's Resemblance to language (English)
Abstract [en]
This essay seeks to expand an understanding of the connection between the young Walter Benjamin’s essay “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man” and Theodor Adornos philosophy of music and philosophy as such. The essay attempts to trace how Adorno transforms Benjamin’s theory of the Divine Name into his musical theory of music as pure sound by demonstrating that the connections are visible throughout his major philosophical works as Negative Dialectics and Aesthetic Theory. The main question then becomes how he puts this into action into his philosophy of music by arguing that his book on Gustav Mahler is the main key for understanding the source of pure sound.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2021. , p. 29
Keywords [en]
resemblance to language, divine, name, music, language
Keywords [de]
sprachähnlich, Sprachcharakter
Keywords [sv]
Adorno, Benjamin, Mahler, musik, språk, namn, estetisk teori, negativ dialektik, språklikhet
National Category
Humanities and the Arts
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-48410OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-48410DiVA, id: diva2:1638126
Subject / course
Philosophy
Supervisors
Examiners
2022-02-182022-02-152025-10-07Bibliographically approved