Music And Philosophy

MUSIC AND PHILOSOPHY Gabriel Marcel Music and Philosophy Translated by Stephen Maddux & Robert E. Wood With an Introduction by Robert E. Wood Marquette Studies in Philosophy No. 42 Andrew Tallon, Series Editor © 2005 Marquette University Press Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201-3141 All rights reserved. www.marquette.edu/mupress/ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Marcel, Gabriel, 1889-1973. Music and philosophy / Gabriel Marcel ; translated by Stephen Maddux & Robert E. Wood ; with an introduction by Robert E. Wood. p. cm. — (Marquette studies in philosophy ; no. 42) Essays on music and its relation to his philosophy written by Gabriel Marcel in French from various French journals. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-87462-665-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-87462-665-X (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Music—Philosophy and aesthetics. I. Maddux, J. Stephen. II. Wood, Robert E., 1934- III. Title. IV. Marquette studies in philosophy ; #42. ML3800.M2413 2005 781’.1—dc22 2005025286 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. Cover photo of the Château Vaux-le-Vicomte, Maincy, France, by Andrew J. Tallon, November, 2003. Epigraph “Taken as a whole my work can be compared, I think, to a country like Greece, which comprises at the same time a continental part and islands. The continental part is my philosophical writing.... [T]he islands are my plays.... And...the element which unites the continent and the islands in my work is music. Music is truly the deepest level. In a certain way the priority belongs to music.” “Conversation with Paul Ricoeur” Tragic Wisdom and Beyond Table of Con