Музикологичният апарат на Михаил Бахтин
Bakhtin’s Musicological Devices

Summary/Abstract: In the last paragraph of Michail Bakhtin’s ‘Author and Character’ one finds a lengthy dispute on music, comparable to the classic of high philosophy on the subject –– from Boethius through Leibnitz, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. From the first words, with the neo-Kantian vocabulary of ‘the possibly pure’ and the ringing in the receptive reader’s sensibility ‘unendliche Melodie’ of the ‘un-endable,’ Bakhtin draws a wide humanistic horizon around the music and perception, since that, which we ‘hear in music’ appears to be primarily ‘the will-power of the possibly pure vitality, in itself un-endable consciousness.’ In essence, Bakhtin’s writing suggests an advanced musicological apparatus, integrated in all contexts of philosophy, history, culture and literary critique, and in many cases precisely his musicological-formalistic notions prove key to his concept –– one of the fundamentals for the second half of the XX century –– throughout the East and West alike.

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