Papers Session: Theorizing Beyond Discourse: Music as Method
Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)
This paper examines the role of music in the work of 20th-century Jewish philosopher and musicologist Vladimir Jankélévitch. Within his philosophical work, nostalgia emerges a malady that is paradigmatic of the human condition. It is something like an affective response to our own finitude, and thus can never be cured once and for all. However, music reflects our—temporal, irreversible—situation, and in so doing makes it bearable and perhaps even beautiful.