{"product_id":"music-and-the-ineffable-9780691090474","title":"Music and the Ineffable","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe classic work on the philosophy of musicnow available in English to a new generation of readers  Vladimir Janklvitch left behind a remarkable body of work steeped as much in philosophy as in music. 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 composers such as Faur  Debussy  and Ravel. Music and the Ineffable brings together these two threads  the philosophical and the musical  as an extraordinary quintessence of his thought. Janklvitch deals with classical issues in the philosophy of music  including metaphysics and ontology. These are a point of departure for a sustained examination and dismantling of the idea of musical hermeneutics in its conventional sense.  Music  Janklvitch argues  is not a hieroglyph  not a language or sign system; nor does it express emotions  depict landscapes or cultures  or narrate. On the other hand  music cannot be imprisoned within the icy  morbid notion of pure structure or autonomous discourse. Yet if musical works are not a cipher awaiting the decoder  music is nonetheless entwined with human experience  and with the physical  material reality of music in performance. Music is \"ineffable \" as Janklvitch puts it  because it cannot be pinned down  and has a capacity to engender limitless resonance in several domains. Janklvitchs singular work on music was central to such figures as Roland Barthes and Catherine Clment  and the complex textures and rhythms of his lyrical prose sound a unique note  until recently seldom heard outside the francophone world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67898746372149,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691090475","price":61.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691090474.jpg?v=1793784113","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/music-and-the-ineffable-9780691090474","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}