The Musicality of Making Philosophy or Karl Jaspers between West and East

The paper tries to grasp and acquire Karl Jaspers’s philosophical-mental horizons mainly through the terminological and methodological instruments of the musical – primarily symphonic – thematisation of the musical composition. That is, through those typically jaspersian tensions and impulses, which in their connections to the Encompassing and to Existence are apparently far from them – turning back (and forth) to the oriental and western metaphysics of Sound and Light. While the “philosophical problems” which were elevated into themes now start to interweave into spectacle (spectaculum) and – in the meanwhile – they start opening up as ciphers. Concomitantly they do not send us – western thinkers – beyond the World, on the contrary, they attach us to the communicative responsibility towards the world, to ourselves and to others.

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