Schopenhauer posits that the Idea expresses itself in a moment the subject experiences "directly...in feeling," and that art requires this "feeling" to occur through the dedication of "the whole of our mind to perception." (WWR, 77, 79) My essay posits that this "feeling" is a new metaphysics that privileges the bodily sense of being over the rational, and as such Schopenhauer's thing-in-itself, the essence of a thing or its Idea, only exists as knowledge when the object is felt by the subject. This means there is no longer a strict body-mind dualism, as it is now a unity, for knowledge appears through an attuned being one with the object - the subject must find that which is communicated not by thinking on it but being one with it. We see what this means for music in Tim Hecker's "AMPS, DRUGS MELLOTRON" because the essence of the song, its beauty, is experienced through the act of listening, and the song does not distract the listener to think but seduces into having the listener listen.
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