The Much-at-Once: Music, Science, Ecstasy, the Body

Bruce W. Wilshire

Published by Fordham University Press 2017

The Much-at-Once

Music, Science, Ecstasy, the Body

Bruce W. Wilshire
Preface by: Edward S. Casey

In the series American Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823268368

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About this book

In this capstone work of his career, Bruce W. Wilshire builds on William James’s concept of the much-at-once to develop a holistic philosophy of the experiencing body, giving special attention to the importance of music, and engaging a rich array of thinkers and composers ranging from Jefferson and James to Beethoven and Mahler.

Author / Editor information

Wilshire Bruce W. :

Bruce W. Wilshire was Senior Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. His many books include Fashionable Nihilism: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy and The Primal Roots of American Philosophy: Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Native American Thought.Casey Edward S. :

Edward S. Casey is Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, where he works in aesthetics, philosophy of space and time, ethics, perception, and psychoanalytic theory. His published books include Imagining: A Phenomenological Study (Indiana University Press, 2000), Remembering: A Phenomenological Study (Indiana University Press, 2000), Getting Back into Place
(Indiana University Press, 1993), The Fate of Place (University of California Press, 1997), and The World at a Glance (2007).

Reviews

—Edward S. Casey:
“The Much-at-Once is an extraordinary edifice, a cathedral of concepts, a summa of Bruce Wilshire's distinguished and diverse writings. It is unprecedented in our time.”

—John J. McDermott:
“For decades, the late Bruce Wilshire has showered us with incandescent prose, teaching us to reflect and see beyond the banal, the habitual, the perpetual vises that often render our experiencing inert. In this last bequest from Wilshire, he teaches us how to listen, how to hear.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Edward S. Casey Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Prologue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. Music, Ecstasy, the Body
Segment One. Music, the Body, Existence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Segment Two. Splitting of Sacred from Secular? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
Segment Three. Where Are We? Locations and Dis- locations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
Segment Four. Breaking the Trance of Mentalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
Lingering Afterword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
Part Two. Music, Art, Science, Genius
Segment Five. Fugal Strands to Be Woven Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Segment Six. The United States: Experimental Nation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Segment Seven. Music of Science, Thought, and the Body Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Segment Eight. The Mind of Music Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Final Benediction: Ritual as Music Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Appendixes
Appendix A. More on Fugue, Mind, and the Self Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Appendix B. Can Brain Science Tell Us Who We Are? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Appendix C. The Body- Schema and Dimensions of Empathy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
Afterword Gil Wilshire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271

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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 296
Keywords: Music; Philosophy & Theory

eBook

Published: February 1, 2016
ISBN: 9780823268368