Question
This thinker argued that music can’t be understood by philosophy since it has no propositional content in the book Music and the Ineffable. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this philosopher and musicologist who wrote biographies of Fauré, Ravel, and Debussy. A 1967 book by this student of Henri Bergson argues that forgiveness has supernatural power, building on his much earlier concept of “bad conscience.”
ANSWER: Vladimir Jankélévitch (“zhan-ke-LAY-vitch”)
[10m] Robin James argued that Jankélévitch’s characterization of music as feminine influenced the theories of femininity in this book, which is based on a dissertation that Jankélévitch evaluated. In this book, Emmanuel Levinas argued that ethics arises from an encounter with the Other.
ANSWER: Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority [or Totalité et Infini: essai sur l’extériorité]
[10e] Jankélévitch’s theory of musical ineffability inspired this thinker’s description of the “problem of the adjective” in an essay from Image-Music-Text, which also includes his essay “The Death of the Author.”
ANSWER: Roland Barthes
<FW, Philosophy (19th/20th Century)>
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Indiscernible Broke Girls | Yesodei HaTorah 2:7 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Fable of the Miis | Water Buffalo | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Goldman & Jackson | Knox et al | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Three Cantabrigians | The Chard Problem of Consciousness | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 RMP Fest Online Mirror | 05/31/25 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2025 RMP Fest Carleton Mirror | 07/13/25 | N | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 RMP Fest CO Mirror | 08/10/25 | N | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 67% | 17% |