Music as a Modus of Accomplishing Epochē: Four Theses on Musical Phenomenology In memory of Dimitar Zashev (1948-2018) and Andrey Leskov (1960-2020)—two Bulgarian philosophers who left indelible marks in the study of phenomenology

• 作者: Kristina Yapova
• 来源期刊: 哲学研究:英文版
• 学科: 工学
• 关键词: MUSIC epochē tone hearing reason in music musical reason
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（12）
• 页码范围: 755-762
• 页数: 8页
• 分类号: TN9

摘要

How can music be a modus of accomplishing what Husserl calls“a radical,skeptical epochē”,that is,a way of refraining from judgment about all that is to be known?In order to answer the question,we have to first submit music itself to the act of epochē.This will allow us to get free from the widespread opinion that music is only an art,and to understand it in a broad sense,namely as a sphere of Being.This sphere is founded on the tone which,on its part,is thinkable not as an expression of the number(as in the Pythagorean tradition)or a medium for voicing,supplementing,or accompanying words,but as a primary essence enabling us to reach the truth of Being in a direct and immediate way.Hence,music provides an advantage for the one who chooses it as a way of accomplishing epochē.In providing immediate access to the truth of all thinkable things and of Being itself,it releases him from the necessity to cover any distance to it by passing through concepts,notions,and ideas in relation to which he is required to exercise the discipline of epochē.