Соціокультурна еволюція. Музичний поступ як Дарвінівське знаряддя домінування
Socio-cultural evolution. Musical progress as a Darwinian instrument of domination

Summary/Abstract: The perception of music as a progressive force is closely connected with its complete re-definition resulting from the formation of bourgeois society that started in the 18th century. This «Project of Modernity» with its purpose of «self-reassurance» and «selfformation», which Jürgen Habermas considered unfinished and sought to save as late as 1980, started with the Age of Enlightenment. All variants thereof that have been formulated, from decadence-influenced interpretations of history to its Aufhebung, were centered on 1) secularization, which, in music, was undermined by its elevation to Art-asreligion complete with a promise of redemption, 2) a belief in progress, which proclaimed the genius, i.e. the composer, to be a creator ex nihilo (and therefore of something new entirely) and therefore a savior, 3) rationality, which ensured reason and truth in artistic works, and 4) autonomy, which manifested itself in purely instrumental music as opus perfectum et absolutum.

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