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This chapter provides a series of philosophical meditations on the idea that music has the power to create sonic worlds that are beyond language, that wordlessness is not worldlessness. Taking Jan Zwicky’s concept of lyric philosophy and the “possibility of loss” as a starting point, it considers the relationship between disability, loss, and gain. It then examines the philosophical and musical significance of “wordlessness,” the “burden” of language, and the idea of silence as sound. Music can also create embodied, mutable worlds that are made of movements, gestures, and temporalities. To encounter these sonic worlds is to recognize mystery and the incalculable, as they point to something beyond what philosophy can define. These reflections are inspired by philosophers who have addressed the limits of language and the philosophical significance of music: Friedrich Nietzsche, Gabriel Marcel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Jan Zwicky. |
