A Christian Art? Søren Kierkegaard's Views on Music and Musical Performance Reconsidered
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A Christian Art? Søren Kierkegaard's Views on Music and Musical Performance Reconsidered. / Petersen, Nils Holger.
In: Kierkegaard Studies, Vol. 2020, 2020, p. 3-13.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - A Christian Art?
T2 - Søren Kierkegaard's Views on Music and Musical Performance Reconsidered
AU - Petersen, Nils Holger
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - While the only extensive discussion of music in Kierkegaard’s work isthe famous treatise based on Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni in the first part of thepseudonymous Either/Or (1843), Kierkegaard did write other brief passages, inwhich he made comments on musical aspects. Two recent articles have pointedto attitudes toward music in such passages which seem to differ from thenegative evaluation of music as a religious or theological medium in the firstpart of Either/Or by the fictitious aesthete A. With a point of departure in thetwo mentioned articles, I attempt to further discuss the possible relationshipbetween the ethical and the aesthetic in Kierkegaard’s musical thought,involving passages from both parts of Either/Or as well as a few journal-entries.Finally, Erika Fischer-Lichte’s distinction between staging and performativity isbrought to bear on these issues.
AB - While the only extensive discussion of music in Kierkegaard’s work isthe famous treatise based on Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni in the first part of thepseudonymous Either/Or (1843), Kierkegaard did write other brief passages, inwhich he made comments on musical aspects. Two recent articles have pointedto attitudes toward music in such passages which seem to differ from thenegative evaluation of music as a religious or theological medium in the firstpart of Either/Or by the fictitious aesthete A. With a point of departure in thetwo mentioned articles, I attempt to further discuss the possible relationshipbetween the ethical and the aesthetic in Kierkegaard’s musical thought,involving passages from both parts of Either/Or as well as a few journal-entries.Finally, Erika Fischer-Lichte’s distinction between staging and performativity isbrought to bear on these issues.
KW - Faculty of Theology
KW - Søren Kierkegaard
KW - church hymns
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - musical thought
KW - performativity and musical performance
U2 - DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/kierke-2020-0001
DO - DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/kierke-2020-0001
M3 - Journal article
VL - 2020
SP - 3
EP - 13
JO - Kierkegaard Studies
JF - Kierkegaard Studies
SN - 1430-5372
ER -
ID: 253145530