Ortega y Gasset and Adorno on Debussy

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Autor(a) principal: Castro, Paulo Ferreira de
Data de Publicação: 2018
Idioma: eng
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spelling Ortega y Gasset and Adorno on Debussyfrom the ‘dehumanisation of art’ to the rhetoric of subjectivityClaude DebussyTheodor W. AdornoRhetoricUID/EAT/00693/2013In this paper, my focus is on a selection of writings by José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) and Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969). Although not primarily remembered for their engagement with Debussy’s music, both philosophers acknowledged the French composer’s crucial historical role as the initiator of ‘new music’ in a number of texts, such as Ortega’s Musicalia (1921) and La deshumanización del arte (1925), and Adorno’s Philosophie der neuen Musik (1949). Interestingly, in spite of the obvious differences between their philosophical approaches, outlooks, and modes of presentation, their views on Debussy appear related not only by the common perception of a genetic link between Debussy and Stravinsky, but also by the shared appraisal of the former as an early exponent of the ‘dehumanisation’ of (modern) art – in the peculiar sense given to the phrase by Ortega, which, mutatis mutandis, finds its counterpart in Adorno’s critique of the extinction of subjective Erlebniszeit (‘experiential time’) and the eventual collapse of Bergsonianism in the Franco-Russian line of musical development. My purpose is (1) to address the implications of both thinkers’ contributions for our understanding of Debussy’s musical language, and in particular, (2) to search for evidence of a ‘dehumanised’ stance in Debussy’s work, in its concrete musical configurations (with special reference to the late works) – the aim being to bring together philosophical, hermeneutic and analytical perspectives on musical subjectivity and anti-subjectivity, through (although not exclusively by means of) the identification and interpretation of specific music-textual devices in the composer’s oeuvre, including the externalisation of sound images and the disintegration of discursive models of musical form. My research is, in part, informed by the existing literature on the theme of musical subjectivity and the (de)construction of ‘voice’, especially the work of Carolyn Abbate, Michael Steinberg and Lawrence KramerDepartamento de Ciências Musicais (DCM)Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical (CESEM - NOVA FCSH)RUNCastro, Paulo Ferreira de2024-07-26T22:21:34Z20182018-01-01T00:00:00Zconference objectinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion1application/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/170071engPURE: 74827956info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)instname:FCCN, serviços digitais da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiainstacron:RCAAP2024-08-05T01:35:47Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/170071Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireinfo@rcaap.ptopendoar:https://opendoar.ac.uk/repository/71602025-05-28T18:46:59.881175Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) - FCCN, serviços digitais da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiafalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Ortega y Gasset and Adorno on Debussy
from the ‘dehumanisation of art’ to the rhetoric of subjectivity
title Ortega y Gasset and Adorno on Debussy
spellingShingle Ortega y Gasset and Adorno on Debussy
Castro, Paulo Ferreira de
Claude Debussy
Theodor W. Adorno
Rhetoric
title_short Ortega y Gasset and Adorno on Debussy
title_full Ortega y Gasset and Adorno on Debussy
title_fullStr Ortega y Gasset and Adorno on Debussy
title_full_unstemmed Ortega y Gasset and Adorno on Debussy
title_sort Ortega y Gasset and Adorno on Debussy
author Castro, Paulo Ferreira de
author_facet Castro, Paulo Ferreira de
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Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical (CESEM - NOVA FCSH)
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Castro, Paulo Ferreira de
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Claude Debussy
Theodor W. Adorno
Rhetoric
topic Claude Debussy
Theodor W. Adorno
Rhetoric
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