Un'etica dell'estetica musicale. Intervista ad Elio Matassi (original) (raw)

ELIO MATASSI TRA FILOSOFIA DELLA GESCHICHTE E COMPENSAZIONI ESTETICHE

In this paper I look back a course taught by Elio Matassi in 2003 about the philosophy of history. He proposed an historiographical route from Hegel to Bloch, passing through Lukacs, Marquard and Koselleck. This journey is not only a possible interpretative key of modernity, but in the transition from the philosophy of history to philosophy of music you can trace the authentic search and life path of Elio Matassi.

Senza estetica non c'è etica. Per un'analisi dei tempi moderni

I propose to analyze the new modes of knowledge and thought that the contemporary world has developed; forgetting the vertical thinking that digs in the depth, and reflects itself and the surrounding reality; forgetting the knowledge of history; forgetting the aesthetic approach that has pervated European society from illiterate to the educated and the powerful.

Note per la storia dell’estetica musicale

2020

This article explores possible ways of conceiving the history of musical aes- thetics. The debate related to the notions of consonance and dissonance is used as an example to emphasise the necessity of taking into account and compare different sources and theoretical paradigms (from mathematics to physics, from music theory to acoustics, from perception theory to the history of ideas). The article also underlines the opportunity to base the historical reconstruction not only on solid contextual knowledge, but also on a reflection informed by a philosophical approach. The latter is necessary to face the the- oretical problems identified in the sources.