Harmony, Sacrifice, and Agamben’s Messianic Time
In the early twentieth century, harmony, the sacred, and even time were seen as impediments to artistic freedom, though for the ancients, harmony was the integrating force of the cosmos. Giorgio Agamben’s recent writings on the sacred and on messianic time shed new light on the emergence of polyphon...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
2015-04-01
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| Series: | Muzikološki Zbornik |
| Online Access: | https://journals.uni-lj.si/MuzikoloskiZbornik/article/view/2989 |
| Summary: | In the early twentieth century, harmony, the sacred, and even time were seen as impediments to artistic freedom, though for the ancients, harmony was the integrating force of the cosmos. Giorgio Agamben’s recent writings on the sacred and on messianic time shed new light on the emergence of polyphony. He warns that capitalism, subsuming sacral power, reduces art either to spectacle or to object for consumption. |
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| ISSN: | 0580-373X 2350-4242 |