Filosofia e musica tra eccedenza e mancanza

Abstract

The ancient relationship between philosophy and music has given rise to a plurality of interpretations, which have emphasized their affinity or divergence, their equality or dissimilarity, in the latter case involving categories such as ‘overflow ‘ or ‘absence’ with regard to the semantics or asemanticity of sound language with respect to verbal language. This essay recalls its main declinations, dwelling, in particular, on the debate that has been animated also in Italy since the second half of the last century and has developed, albeit with alternating phases, up to the present day. The perspective assumed is that of a feeling and thinking ‘with music’ and not only ‘about music’, creating an autonomous space of ‘crossing’ that neither ‘solves’ nor subordinates one of the two terms.