Why does Heidegger hate classical music?

He describes classical music as offering nothing more than an aesthetic sensation, the result of aesthetic posturing, "the conception and estimation of art in terms of the unalloyed state of feeling and the growing barbarization of the very state to the point where it becomes the sheer bubbling and boiling of feeling abandoned to itself." For Heidegger classical music is pure metaphysics, an indulgence of bourgeois culture, because it is devoid of an ontological grounding and the ties of people to the earth. At best it's a harmless divertissement and nothing more; the total works of Beethoven nothing but a harmless divertissement!

His estimation of music as a high art seems very unfair, and likely the product of Heidegger's unfamiliarity with classical music as a discipline, but nonetheless I cannot account for such a negative evaluation.

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  1. 2 weeks ago
    ࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇

    THIS IS MEDIEVAL MUSIC:

    THIS IS RENAISSANCE MUSIC:

    THIS IS MANNERISTIC MUSIC:

    THIS IS BAROQUE MUSIC:

    THIS IS ROCCOCO MUSIC:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jio1HP94R8

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGfaoiHL6i4

    THIS IS ILLUSTRISTIC MUSIC:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1-TrAvp_xs

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbf1LVE4UKM

    THIS IS ROMANTICISTIC MUSIC:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4ImL0Rblk8

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=891JUSQplzU

    THIS IS MODERNISTIC MUSIC:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAnXTHUU4ks

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ2Hz53wzuA

    THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS «CLASSICAL MUSIC».

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >MANNERISTIC
      Not a real word.

      • 2 weeks ago
        ࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇

        «MANNERISTIC»: PERTAINING TO MANNERISM.

        YOUR IGNORANCE OF A WORD DOES NOT MAKE THAT WORD «NOT REAL».

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Not a real word.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      this is off topic moronic posting

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        says the moron in a IQfy thread on IQfy. which fricking book is the discussing, exactly?

  2. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    The problem with classical music is that is very easy to navigate it into technical wankery with no soul and no essence, im a musical grug but man I can go through Tristan und Isolde, it has nice parts, or the stabat mater of Pergolesie that is grief of the most profoud nature, Vivaldi's agressive pieces or Bach's serene soothing tunes, but cant tolerate Mozart, Beethoven, shostakovich and the like, they bore me to death and you can see that the people who enjoy their opus always chant the same mantra "but the technical complexity", personally I despise that is just a vulgar display of skill for the mere sake of it, ti show of good chops you have, the bragging rights exists I get it I just dont think is worth wasting your time with that.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      No offence anon but you're a pleb. It sounds like you've listened to about 10 pieces of classical music. Mozart and Beethoven are admired BECAUSE of their super-plenitude of soul. In them technical complexity is always perfectly united with the expression of soul. There is never an innovation that was not done with the aim of a greater expression of soul. There is never superficial skill.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >there is never superficial skill
        What a fricking midwit

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          There is never superficial skill in either Mozart or Beethoven, yes, do you lack basic reading comprehension? You've probably not listened to more than 10 pieces of classical music yet you think you can criticise Beethoven and Mozart, you have no right to call anyone a midwit. Deriding Beethoven and Mozart as all technical complexity is laughably moronic to anyone with even the most entry level knowledge in classical music. But that knowledge aside, you have no musical feeling. People may not be able to explain the enormous addition to the expressive potential of music by these giants, but they can still feel its effect, yet you cannot. Now, are you really insensitive to the effects of art, or are you just pretending to have heard things you have not?

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            Man if this is the kind of music that "moves your soul" you must be some shallow person, elevator music supreme is what it is, I dont feel anything because there is nothing to feel, do you also burst into tears when looking a perfectly designed machine? Where every piece moves as it should and its fuction is flawlessly excuted? I doubt it.
            >Now, are you really insensitive to the effects of art?
            There is a lot of art that carries very little emotional weight, romaticism has been always despised for doing the opposite yet I find it more genuine, you know "art" does not equal guaranteed emotions, to take a more vulgar approach in music technical death metal is the biggest example, you cant possibly be a human being with a beating heart and listen to that SHIT and call it art, or say it carries emotions is just wankery, is just standing there screaming "I am a fricking boss at guitar/drums/bass" what makes you think classical music does not suffer from the same? Because you like it and its sacred to you? To say that Im insensitive to art is very bold and I doubt you can prove it beyond debating me on 4chins.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            What an enormous idiot, just mind-blowing. Yes, I can say, with perfect confidence, that you lack artistic sensitivity. You lack artistic culture, you lack any education in the realm of art one can imagine. Just stop talking about music, with every new metaphor and description you say something even more stupid and distanced from any knowledge of the subject. There's nothing mechanical about Beethoven's compositions, that's nowhere near the reason anyone praises it, yet you think it is for some absurd, confused reason. Your sole aesthetic criteria is 'me like' or 'me not like' for whatever passing sounds you hear, and in trying to give that some objective merit you've created this concoction of every foolish idea that enters into your head.

            Don't (you) me with your attempts at breaking down my post and providing a coherent argument again, your attempts at intellectual consistency are laughable, your knowledge non-existent. You will only continue to embarrass yourself and find nothing but scorn and derision in return.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            Well this is one fine autistic fit of rage if I have ever seen one, kek.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            >least lunatic IQfysic enjoyer

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      agree with you on mozart but its weird AF to say beethoven or shostakovich have no sovl

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Filtered by the subtleties of classical period music.

  3. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Because it forgets being instead of disclosing truth like a good yodeler can

  4. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >he describes classical music

    Where does he use that phrase?

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      He doesn’t, OP made it up

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      He doesn’t, OP made it up

      It's from Will to Power as Art. You may not want to admit it, but here Heidegger was completely out of his element.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >he is out of his element because... Because I say so!

  5. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Look, the point is that we need a big silence, so we can have a new beginning.

  6. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    So what music would he like?

  7. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymouṡ

    It's always weird to find a high-achiever has no appreciation for music. It's like knowing someone for years and then suddenly discovering he's only got one leg.

    I was reading George Patton's autobiography the other day and suddenly came across this admission (see pic attached). He says two sane and sensible things:

    — it's seems a bit silly to waste time and men teaching horses to do fancy steps in the middle of a war
    — on the other hand, it's good to preserve skills, even if they seem a bit redundant

    and then something ABSOLUTELY BONKERS:

    — training horses to do fancy steps > painting and music

    Painting, I have some sympathy with. We can live without painting. But we can't live without music. Oh well, I guess no-one's perfect.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      how is some bullshit general's opinion on art bothering you?

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I’ve known many before. It’s like they’re alien to me.

  8. 2 weeks ago
    sage

    >expecting a nazi to be truthful and not serve some political interest
    Why would you?

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Didn't mean to announce a sage, and I didn't sage. Sorry

  9. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Where does he say this? Classical music is pretty much the peak of artistic expression.

  10. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Please understand that German philosophy and poetry is nothing more than idealizing the Greeks

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      And Greeks (and ancients in general) made terrible, primitive music. That explains it.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        We actually don’t know that for a fact. We have like five spurious pieces of music which survive and the notation is so ancient we aren’t even sure we are reading it properly.

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