Bollingen Ser.: Sound and Symbol, Volume 1 Vol. 1 : Music and the External World

Description: Bollingen Series.: Sound and Symbol, Volume 1 Vol. 1 : Music and the External World, Second Printing, 1973 By Victor Zuckerkandl This book is in very good condition, the front cover has some creasing as can be seen in the photos. The photos are the actual book you will receive. Thank you! The present study attempts to reinstate music as an instrument of philosophical inquiry. It seeks not so much a philosophy of music as a philosophy through music. By working from the bare facts of musical experience to a recognition of its essential properties, the author arrives at a set of fundamental concepts which could serve as a framework for an understanding of the world and of ourselves: concepts that are in surprising accord with some of the basic ideas of modern science. Indeed, one of the characteristic elements of twentieth-century thought in general, as the author demonstrates, is an orientation toward music. "SOUND AND SYMBOL is both original and profound, and, while accounting for the phenomenon of music, it also uses music to uncover new aspects of knowledge-namely, non-conceptual modes of knowing through tonal imagery." The Times Literary Supplement "Mr. Zuckerkandl believes that music has a special kind of reality; it is outside us, it takes place in the external world. but it is neither a physical phenomenon nor a projection of psychic states; we cannot trace what we hear in music to the properties of sound waves, nor can we call it a hallucination in which psychological responses become objectified. Music conceived in this way has important implications for metaphysical philosophy: it insists upon a broad conception of the external world, and the examples it provides of motion and time and space become as significant as those of science."-_Edward Arthur Lippman, The Musical Quarterly VICTOR ZUCKERKANDL (1896-1965) , born in Vienna, came to the United States in 1940 and taught at Wellesley College, The New School, and St. John's College in Annapolis. His publications include THE SENSE OF MUsIc (Princeton Paperback, 1967). A continuation of SOUND AND SYMBOL was completed before his death. It has been translated by Norbert Guterman and published as MAN THE MUSICIAN (Bollingen Series XLIV: 2).

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