Music and the numinous / Richard Elfyn Jones.

The continuum of music—what is it, what does it do, how does it do it—has taxed countless philosophers over recorded time, and even the verb for what it does (express? arouse? evoke? symbolize? embody?) meets with no universal agreement. Not always is music admired: in the Book of Ezekiel, the proph...

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Superior document:Consciousness, literature & the arts, 8
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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 8.
Physical Description:1 online resource (125 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The Transcendental and Rational Discourse
  • Music as Sublime Organism
  • Process Philosophy
  • Music and Process
  • A Whiteheadian Aesthetic and a Musical Paradigm
  • Music, the Other Arts and Process
  • Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index of Names.