I wrote this at three thirty in the morninig and posted it in my philosophy class's forum.
Does one's choice, one's choosing perhaps depend upon some sense of "the immediate"? Part of the confusion in thinking on the matter raised by Spade may be due to the standard interpretation of Kierkegaard having some trouble here in trying to separate the notion of immediacy from the aesthetical perspective.
The two concepts are very plainly ( Read more... )
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I found part of Either/Or on Google books, though not enough to feel sure I know what's going on in this chapter (but then, maybe the whole chapter wouldn't help either). All I have is a couple questions.
This quote helped some:
Music exists only in the moment of its performance, for however skilful one may be at reading notes and however lively one's imagination, it cannot be denied that it is only in an unreal sense that the music exists when read. It exists really only when it is performed.
Okay, so process vs. product...And the process of this work of art is the fated union of this form with this matter?
I'm not sure whether K is saying music is the only force that can properly express the immediate--but if he is, would this observation apply to nonliterate cultures?
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