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Deals with classical issues in the philosophy of music, including metaphysics and ontology. This book argues that music is not a hieroglyph, nor a language or sign system. It argues that music is 'ineffable', because it cannot be pinned down, and has a capacity to engender limitless resonance in several domains.

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

Music and the Ineffable

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 28 July 2003
      ISBN-13 9780691090474
      978-0691090474
      ISBN-10 0691090475
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Deals with classical issues in the philosophy of music, including metaphysics and ontology. This book argues that music is not a hieroglyph, nor a language or sign system. It argues that music is 'ineffable', because it cannot be pinned down, and has a capacity to engender limitless resonance in several domains.

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

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