La resistencia de la música al concepto filosófico: una aproximación desde el pensamiento del límite

Abstract

The literature of thought is, in the present moment, in a critical and selfless situation. The last attempts at systematization carried out by the Enlightenment tradition characterize the philosophy into an exhausted path, both in its immanent and metaphysical aspects, especially in the face of the philosophical tragicism of the last decades. The arts, exorcised above all by the novel, essay and music of Romanticism, seem to have added to this dialogue impossible to subject to criticism, closing the traditional reason to its conceptual and methodological use. Eugenio Trías’ philosophical approach (1942-2013) restores the metaphysical vocation and the systematic effort of European tradition. The result is a vast conceptual building dominated by the notion of limit, as an instance of separation and link between the world and the transcendence, which gives expositive and novel way to a thought that prepares, in the 21st century, a new framework of understanding for the subject, philosophy and the arts. This research undertakes, from the philosophy of the limit, an analysis of the visceral relationship between philosophy and the arts, especially the music, whose representation of the limit points to the concept of «symbol». With the symbol, it aims to justify the significant and cognitive nature of the artistic creation as the activity that embodies the frontier being (ontology), and whose matter often resists categorial treatment; to apply in second place to music the method followed by metaphysics from its foundation, from whose results, try to complement or surpass the triassian proposal by virtue of a unitary and new discourse, a proposal that allows to resume the dialogue, the course and orientation of universal thinking about music. Finally, by applying to music the notion of limit, Aesthetics is approached by a fruitful and fecund field of research which finds in the philosophy of the 21st century an inescapable point of reflection. At this point, we attend to the metaphysical reflection of a phenomenon that welcomes both creators and viewers to the core of the limit, that is to say, to the delicate frontier between «what can be said and what should remain silent».