Postlude
Postlude
The Musical Aesthetics of a World So Composed
The Postlude briefly considers the sympathetic resonance of this Platonic medieval cosmology in the recent vibrational and relational ontologies articulated in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and others. It situates the discursive and theoretical constitution of the “beauty of the world” (the anthropological, sonorous, and celestial aesthetics of Part II) within recent debates in the history of science about the aesthetics of scientific theories. It concludes that the musical aesthetics of medieval cosmology is the cosmos listening to itself. The articulation of this theory is an act of “overhearing” that seeks to capture, if only mimetically, that self-reflexive experience.
Keywords: ontology, history of science, history of aesthetics, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Steven Shaviro
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