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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.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Translator's Note
Preface by Paolo Gozza
Premiss
Introduction
Chapter 1The Christian
Chapter 2The Prophet and the Saint
Chapter 3Christ
Chapter 4The Father
Further Reading
About the author
Laurence Wuidar
Summary
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.
Foreword
This book collects together examples of Augustine’s musical imagery in action in order to investigate the philosophical value of music.
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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.
