Laurence Wuidar

On Mystery, Ineffability, Silence and Musical Symbolism (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350228801
• Artikelnr.: 62284304

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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