On Mystery, Ineffability, Silence and Musical Symbolism

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Translator's Note
Preface by Paolo Gozza
Premiss

Introduction

Chapter 1
The Christian

Chapter 2
The Prophet and the Saint

Chapter 3
Christ

Chapter 4
The Father

Further Reading

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Laurence Wuidar teaches the Philosophy of Music and the History of Medieval Philosophy at the Dominican Studium in Bologna, Italy.

Zusammenfassung

Collecting together numerous examples of Augustine’s musical imagery in action, Laurence Wuidar reconstructs the linguistic laboratory and the hermeneutics in which he worked. Sensitive and poetical, this volume is a reminder that the metaphor of music can give access not only to human interiority, but allow the human mind to achieve proximity to the divine mind.

Composed by one of Europe’s leading musicologists now engaging an English-speaking audience for the first time, this book is a candid exploration of Wuidar’s expertise. Drawing on her long knowledge of music and the occult, from antiquity to modernity, Wuidar particularly focuses upon Augustine’s working methods while refusing to be distracted by questions of faith or morality. The result is an open and at times frightening vista on the powers that be, and our complex need to commune with them.

Vorwort

This book collects together examples of Augustine’s musical imagery in action in order to investigate the philosophical value of music.

Zusatztext

Laurence Wuidar invites us to rethink the categories of discourse about music, and really, music itself, and what it can convey in relation to God and the unknown. Hers is a masterful study of the ineffable, using words that move the reader beyond the limits of words, and into the realm of pure knowing.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Laurence Wuidar
• Mitarbeit: Miles Hollingworth (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 07.10.2021
• EAN: 9781350228795
• ISBN: 978-1-350-22879-5
• Seiten: 192
• Serie: Reading Augustine
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Sonstiges; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion