Music arrives first: the musical mimesis duo in the Aesthetics of Lukács

Abstract

This article, of theoretical and bibliographic character, synthetically debates the topic “Musics”, present in chapter 14 of Aesthetics. The peculiarity of the aesthetic, by Georg Lukács. Based on immanent reading, communication, supported by the Hungarian author, is part of the fundamental characteristic of the homogeneous musical environment, that is, that music shares the condition of having a double mimesis. The musical case, however, considers the basic law of the Lukácsian aesthetic re-figuration for the other arts; that is: width, depth, breadth, among other elements of the expression of life, are elements from which art draws vital material to reshape his works. In other words, the material provided by the world, to the same extent for any art, will be the soil that feeds the vital material of the musical conformation. The exhibition points out, as a consideration of the apprehended debate, that music – as well as other forms of artistic reflection – and life share a common field of contact, this being the supplier of the living material, so that it can rise to the level of provoke catharsis in the living persons.