TY - JOUR
TI - Music as theophany? Questions for George Steiner
AU - Trzęsiok, Marcin
TI - Music as theophany? Questions for George Steiner
AB - 
	Music occupies a special place in George Steiner’s thinking: “Three areas: the essence and name of God, higher mathematics and music (what is the connection between them?) are located at the limits of language” (Steiner, Errata). The seemingly rhetorical question in parentheses turns out to be a source of deep controversy, the essence of which is revealed in historical-genealogical reflection. Steiner attempts to incorporate Romantic metaphysics within the traditional scholastic symbiosis of Biblical creationism and Pythagoreanism, which reveals his philosophy of music to be entangled in a range of contradictions. On the one hand, a critical reading of Steiner's works uncovers the difficulties posed by the attempt to reconcile pre- and post-Enlightenment culture; on the other hand, the still unused opportunities offered by Romanticism and its modernist continuations are clearly visible. Musical aesthetics, rooted in the idea of infinity, plays a crucial role in these divagations.
VL - 2019
IS - Volume 66
PY - 2019
SN - 0867-5392
C1 - 2084-3887
SP - 163
EP - 185
DO - 10.4467/20843887PI.19.006.11639
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/principia/article/muzyka-jako-teofania-pytania-do-georgea-steinera
KW - George Steiner
KW - Arnold Schönberg
KW - musical aesthetics
KW - philosophy of religion
KW - romanticism