Music: time and being - the constitution of heideggerian mousiké

A CONSTITUIÇÃO DA MOUSIKÉ HEIDEGGERIANA

Abstract

This article consists of a reflection on the concept of music in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. This reflection is centered on the idea that music is articulated as time, becoming an immediate expression of this category, as we can understand from reading the following texts: The concept of time; Being and Time; Time and Being; Nietzsche; The origin of the Work of Art; Conferences on language. From this reading, we infer the hypothesis that music is an immediate expression of the category of time, insofar as time essentially participates in its structure. In this sense, music must be, in the context of Heideggerian thought, mousiké; that is, the logos that gives the meaning of being in language. The argument is developed in three parts, the first in which we reflect on the concept of time proposed by Heidegger; a second, which supports the proposition that time participates in the structure of beings and, finally, a third, where we characterize music in its essential connection with time and the relationship of this idea with the Heideggerian concept of mousiké.