Voicing Ineffability: Theological Modernism and the Expression(ism) of Faith in Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron

Andrew J. Ball
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Abstract:Moses and Aron is indicative of the shift in Schoenberg’s thinking that occurred in the early 1920s. His conflicting aesthetic and religious convictions are embodied in Moses, who reflects Schoenberg’s religious piety, and Aron who represents his devotion to expressionist, Schopenhauerian aesthetics. By revisiting the figures and relationship of Moses and Aron, Schoenberg’s opera examines the possibility of an anti-idolatrous modern work of religious Judaic art. By problematizing the contradiction of creating anti-idolatrous, worshipful Jewish art, Schoenberg foregrounds an aesthetic-theological quandary. How can a Jewish artist represent, not the ineffable— the divine—but ineffability while still adhering to the law of anti-idolatry?
不可言喻的表达:神学现代主义与勋伯格《摩西与亚伦》中信仰的表达
摘要:《摩西与阿伦》反映了20世纪20年代初勋伯格思想的转变。他的审美和宗教信仰的冲突体现在摩西身上,摩西反映了勋伯格的宗教虔诚,而阿隆则代表了他对表现主义,叔本华美学的忠诚。通过重新审视摩西和亚伦的人物和关系,勋伯格的歌剧考察了反偶像崇拜的犹太宗教艺术的现代作品的可能性。通过将创造反偶像崇拜、崇拜犹太艺术的矛盾问题化,勋伯格提出了一个美学-神学的困境。一个犹太艺术家怎么能在遵守反偶像崇拜的律法的同时,表现出不是不可言说的——神圣的——而是不可言说的呢?
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