Name:

Omar Martínez Alejos (UDC)

Dissertation title:

The Resistance of Music to the Philosophical Concept: An Approach From the Thought of Limit

Name of the advisor:

Prof. Dr. Juan Alberto Sucasas Peón [Titor: Prof. Dr. José María Paz Gago]

Line of research:

Literatura en lengua española y literatura comparada

Abstract:

The philosophical proposal of Eugenio Trías restores the systematic zeal and the metaphysical calling reflected on the so-called “literature of thought”, inhibited in the European tradition of Hegel and Kant, respectively. The result is a big conceptual building topped by the notion of limit, which separates and joins the world (immanence) and the metaphysical (transcendence). How to understand the role of music apart from the concept? This research carries out, from the philosophy of limit, an analysis of the visceral relation between music and philosophy whose representation points to the concept of “symbol”.
Temporarily, the significative and cognoscitive nature of artistic creation is proposed as an activity embodying the being of limit and whose subject matter is sometimes reluctant to been categorised. If the notions of limit and symbol were applied to music, aesthetics would be approached by a fruitful research field that finds in 21st century philosophy an unavoidable point of reflection: to embrace creators and spectators within the limit, that is, in the thin border between “what can be said and what must be silenced”.

Program:

2014-2015

Keywords:

Limit, Rationalism, Romanticism, thought, border, symbol, experience, metaphysics, music, ontology, aesthetics

Translation:

Original language