"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." -- -Edward S. Casey Stony Brook University, SUNY "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." -- -John J. McDermott University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Humanities in Medicine, Texas A&M University

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.
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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.
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Foreword by Edward S. Casey Preface Prologue Part I: Music, Ecstasy, the Body 1. Music, the Body, Existence 2. Splitting of Sacred from Secular? 3. Where Are We? Locations and Dis-locations 4. Breaking the Trance of Mentalism Lingering Afterword Part II: Music, Art, Science, Genius 5. Fugal Strands to Be Woven 6. The United States: Experimental Nation 7. Music of Science, Thought, and the Body 8. The Mind of Music Final Benediction: Ritual as Music Appendixes A. More on Fugue, Mind, and Self B. Can Brain Science Tell Us Who We Are? C. The Body-Schema and Dimensions of Empathy Afterword by Gil Wilshire Works Cited Index
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“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.”---—Edward S. Casey, Stony Brook University, SUNY
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ISBN
9780823268344
Publisert
2016-02-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Fordham University Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
296

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Foreword by

Biographical note

Bruce W. Wilshire (Author)
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.
Edward S. Casey (Foreword By)
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).