On Mystery, Ineffability, Silence and Musical Symbolism

AvLaurence Wuidar,Miles Hollingworth

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-10-07
Mått:138 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt:260 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Reading Augustine
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350228788

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

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[This book] is a boon for any reader interested in Augustine’s insights on music and the musical valence of his theology in general. Wuidar’s work sustains a throughline that foregrounds Augustine’s attention to musical symbolism and presents music as a very attractive model for the God/human relationship. This will be worthwhile reading for those interested in sound studies, philosophy, music, theology, and the intersection of the above. With this book Wuidar has done a service inmaking a foray into the musically rich Enarrationes and retrieving the mind of one of the great thinkers of the Christian tradition.

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AcknowledgementsTranslator's NotePreface by Paolo GozzaPremissIntroductionChapter 1The ChristianChapter 2The Prophet and the SaintChapter 3ChristChapter 4The FatherFurther Reading