Jagna Dankowska On Music and Philosophy
(in Polish)
On Music and Philosophy is a collection of fifteen essays on the philosophy and aesthetics of music by Jagna Dankowska. The first few texts in this collection review the ideas of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Ingarden on the nature of music, its meaning and its form of existence. In the first block of essays Dankowska discusses the ontological problems of silence and soundlessness in music, then discusses the methodological problems involved in one of the aspects of investigating the Polishness of music and finally reflects on the condition of contemporary art and music. The next block of essays is devoted to aesthetics. This block opens with a discussion of some of the central problems in this area and also of the ideas of Władysław Tatarkiewicz and Konstanty Regamey on music and Umberto Eco's open work poetic. The next two texts are devoted to some of the historical issues of real socialism in music. The book ends with reflections at the intersection of aesthetics and ethics dealing with the problem of responsibility in music.
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Compiled by: The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music