Publication |
2014
Abstract
This paper attempts to deduct G.K. Chesterton's concept of music from his writings and to compare the philosophical basis of his idea of the concreteness of art with the aesthetics of the nineteenth-century musical drama, by looking at two diametrically opposed characters: Verdi and Wagner, whose bicentenaries are celebrated in 2013.
In addition, the parallels between Chesterton and Soren Kierkegaard, the third great person who was born two hundred years ago, are being examined - two great thinkers who understood, better than others, not only the wrongness but also the practical danger of idealist monism and the deification of the human/artistic consciousness.