Open AccessHarmony, Sacrifice, and Agamben’s Messianic Time
Author(s) -
J. Danielson
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
muzikološki zbornik/muzikološki zbornik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.108
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2350-4242
pISSN - 0580-373X
DOI - 10.4312/mz.50.2.17-30
Subject(s) - harmony (color) , spectacle , polyphony , philosophy , sacrifice , aesthetics , capitalism , art , literature , theology , law , visual arts , political science , politics
In the early twentieth century, harmony, the sacred, and even time were seen as impediments to artistic freedom, though for the ancients, harmony was the integrating force of the cosmos. Giorgio Agamben’s recent writings on the sacred and on messianic time shed new light on the emergence of polyphony. He warns that capitalism, subsuming sacral power, reduces art either to spectacle or to object for consumption.