The Much-at-Once : : Music, Science, Ecstasy, the Body / / Bruce W. Wilshire.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Wilshire, Bruce W.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Casey, Edward S.
• MitwirkendeR: Casey, Edward S.,; Wilshire, Gil,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: American Philosophy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Prologue -- Part One. Music, Ecstasy, the Body -- Segment One. Music, the Body, Existence -- Segment Two. Splitting of Sacred from Secular? -- Segment Three. Where Are We? Locations and Dis- locations -- Segment Four. Breaking the Trance of Mentalism -- Lingering Afterword -- Part Two. Music, Art, Science, Genius -- Segment Five. Fugal Strands to Be Woven -- Segment Six. The United States: Experimental Nation -- Segment Seven. Music of Science, Thought, and the Body -- Segment Eight. The Mind of Music -- Final Benediction: Ritual as Music -- Appendixes -- Appendix A. More on Fugue, Mind, and the Self -- Appendix B. Can Brain Science Tell Us Who We Are? -- Appendix C. The Body- Schema and Dimensions of Empathy -- Afterword -- Works Cited -- Index