Ideology, humanness, and value. On Adorno’s Stravinsky
Theodor W. Adorno’s critique of Igor Stravinsky has itself been repeatedly criticised. Following the same line, the present article takes as its point of departure the philosophical anthropology of Helmuth Plessner, which challenges the premises of Marxist anthropology, on which Adorno base...
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| Language: | English |
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Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Institute of Musicology of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Muzikologija |
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| Online Access: | https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1450-9814/2023/1450-98142334095T.pdf |
| Summary: | Theodor W. Adorno’s critique of Igor Stravinsky has itself been repeatedly
criticised. Following the same line, the present article takes as its point
of departure the philosophical anthropology of Helmuth Plessner, which
challenges the premises of Marxist anthropology, on which Adorno based his
critique of Stravinsky. Far from regressing to the inhuman and primitive,
Stravinsky’s music affirms, in historically adequate modern terms, the
constitutive reflectivity of the human embodied condition, thus becoming
more “human”, i.e. meaningful and expressive, than Adorno could have even
conceived. Additionally, an account is provided of some groundbreaking
musical qualities that underpin the artistic value of Stravinsky’s music,
which Adorno also contested. |
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| ISSN: | 1450-9814 2406-0976 |