“NÃO HÁ TRISTEZA, NEM ALEGRIA NAS VOZES”, DE JI KANG: UMA TRADUÇÃO ANOTADA嵇康《聲不哀樂論》譯註
Giorgio Sinedino's article presents an annotated Portuguese translation of Ji Kang's 嵇康 essay (聲不哀樂論, "There is neither sadness nor joy in sounds"), situating it within the intellectual debate of the Wei and Jin dynasties and, in particular, within the ethos of Xuanxue (玄學, "Study of the Mystery")....
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
2016
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40052/2230 |
| Summary: | Giorgio Sinedino's article presents an annotated Portuguese translation of Ji Kang's 嵇康 essay (聲不哀樂論, "There is neither sadness nor joy in sounds"), situating it within the intellectual debate of the Wei and Jin dynasties and, in particular, within the ethos of Xuanxue (玄學, "Study of the Mystery"). The central contribution of the text is the Jiangkan defense that music, as a sonic phenomenon conditioned by a natural order (Heaven-Earth and the dynamics of the Five Elements), does not carry in itself fixed emotional determinations: "sadness/joy" are not inherent properties of sounds, but vary according to the relationship between meaning, practice, and naming, and not by any supposed mechanical correspondence with the political state. Methodologically, Sinedino combines philological translation with an interpretive apparatus, elucidating terms, rhetorical disputes, and intertexts from the canon and the tradition of controversies over music and morality. The annotations highlight how the text's dialogue counterposes a Confucian thesis—according to which sounds reflect and produce values and affections—with the thesis of an essential invariance of sound, without this implying total libertinism: Ji Kang operates with argumentative authority, reformulating criteria of orthodoxy. It is concluded that the work constitutes a sophisticated critique of the political-moral naturalization of music and offers a model of interpretive freedom for the appreciator. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |