Much-at-Once

Much-at-Once

Music, Science, Ecstasy, the Body

  • Author: Wilshire, Bruce W.; Casey, Edward S.
  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • Serie: American Philosophy
  • ISBN: 9780823268344
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780823268368
  • eISBN Epub: 9780823268351
  • Place of publication:  New York , United States
  • Year of publication: 2016
  • Year of digital publication: 2016
  • Month: February
  • Language: English

In this capstone work, the late Bruce Wilshire seeks to rediscover the fullness of life in the world by way of a more complete activation of the body’s potentials. Appealing to our powers of hearing and feeling, with a special emphasis on music, he engages a rich array of composers, writers, and thinkers ranging from Beethoven and Mahler to Emerson and William James.

Wilshire builds on James’s concept of the much-at-once to name the superabundance of the world that surrounds, nourishes, holds, and stimulates us; that pummels and provokes us; that responds to our deepest need—to feel ecstatically real.

  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Prologue
  • PART I. MUSIC, ECSTASY, THE BODY
    • 1 Music, the Body, Existence
    • 2 Splitting of Sacred from Secular?
    • 3 Where Are We? Locations and Dis-locations
    • 4 Breaking the Trance of Mentalism
    • Lingering Afterword
  • PART II. MUSIC, ART, SCIENCE, GENIUS
    • 5 Fugal Strands to Be Woven
    • 6 The United States: Experimental Nation
    • 7 Music of Science, Thought, and the Body
    • 8 The Mind of Music
    • Final Benediction: Ritual as Music
  • APPENDIXES
    • A. More on Fugue, Mind, and the Self
    • B. Can Brain Science Tell Us Who We Are?
    • C. The Body-Schema and Dimensions of Empathy
  • Afterword
  • Works Cited
  • Index
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