Simbolismo e crítica: a experiência musical e suas interpretações

Abstract

The thesis consists of the construction and analysis of a debate about the notion of musical experience. Are regimented theses and arguments in order to present and discuss the development of two possible interpretations, about the experience with music. The first called symbolic-transcendental. In light of the philosophy of Ernst Cassirer and Susanne Langer, which employs such an idealistic reading of the musical experience while understanding the music as a logical expression of the universal forms of human feelings. In the second interpretation, built in the material scope of a critical theory of society, especially in the version embodied in the philosophy of Theodor Adorno, the listening experience is fundamentally understood as a social phenomenon. The Adornian Critical Theory seeks to show that music is, among other things, a possible way of presenting the social determinations. After presenting the basic aspects of the two interpretations, their similarities and differences will be confronted in order to be a debate about the musical experience.