Music and the Ineffable

Yet until now his works have not been widely available in English. "Among significant influences in 20th-century philosophical thought on music, perhaps none is as sweeping as that of Vladimir Jankélévitch. Still provocative after 40 years, this book offers fascinating, fresh, and Occasionally befuddling perspectives on the vital phenomenon that is music."--Choice

Jankélévitch's singular work on music was central to such figures as Roland Barthes and Catherine Clément, and the complex textures and rhythms of his lyrical prose sound a unique note, until recently seldom heard outside the francophone world.. These are a point of departure for a sustained examination and dismantling of the idea of musical hermeneutics in its conventional sense.Music, Jankélévitch argues, is not a hieroglyph, not a language or sign system; nor does it express emotions, depict landscapes or cultures, or narrate. His writings on moral quandaries reflect a lifelong devotion to music and performance, and, as a counterpoint, he wrote on music aesthetics and on modernist compos

"what?" according to L. Jou. Guess it's my fault.I did not pay attention that this book is on the ineffability and the music of one musicianExcept that, it's quite well-organized.