The Much-at-Once: Music, Science, Ecstasy, the Body

By Joseph Bohling and Edward S. Casey

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Release date: Jan 31, 2012
• ISBN: 9780823268337