Innate
摘要
The search for the universals of music presupposes that a minimum of natural data acting within cultural phenomena, and musical phenomena in particular, can be taken into consideration. This very idea seemed outrageous not so long ago. But in recent years, in the age-old polemic of the innate versus the acquired, radical culturalism seems to have lost some ground. Marcel Gauchet, interviewed by a magazine in September 1993, observed: