Music is fundamental to human existence, a cultural universal among all humans for all times. It is embedded in our evolution, encoded in our DNA, which is to say, essential to our survival. Academics in a variety of disciplines have considered this idea to devise explanations that Richard Manning, a lifelong journalist, finds hollow, arcane, incomplete, ivory-towered, and just plain wrong. He approaches the question from a wholly different angle, using his own guitar and banjo as instruments of discovery. In the process, he finds himself dancing in celebration of music rough and rowdy.
American roots music is not a product of an elite leisure class, as some academics contend, but of explosive creativity among slaves, hillbillies, field hands, drunks, slackers, and hucksters. Yet these people--poor, working people--built the foundations of jazz, gospel, blues, bluegrass, rock 'n' roll, and country music, an unparalleled burst of invention. This is the counterfactual to the academics' story. This is what tells us music is essential, but by pulling this thread, Manning takes us down a long, strange path, following music to deeper understandings of racism, slavery, inequality, meditation, addiction, the science of our brains, and ultimately to an enticing glimpse of pure religion.
Use this book to follow where his guitar leads. Ultimately it sings the American body, electric.
Описание: The authors in this collection engage with ecstatic naturalism in a variety of ways, comparing it to or integrating it with other philosophies and disciplines to express and fully explore the transcendence and immanence of nature.
Автор: Westphal, Merold Название: Transcendence and self-transcendence ISBN: 0253216877 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253216878 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 3602.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The question of the transcendence of God has traditionally been thought in terms of the difference between pantheism, which affirms that God is wholly "within" the world, and theism, which affirms that God is both "within" and "outside" the world, both immanent and transcendent. Against Heidegger's critique of onto-theology and the general postmodern concern for respecting and preserving the difference of the other, Merold Westphal seeks to rethink divine transcendence in relation to modes of human self-transcendence. Touching upon Spinoza, Hegel, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Aquinas, Barth, Kierkegaard, Levinas, Derrida, and Marion, Westphal's work centers around a critique of onto-theology, the importance of alterity, the decentered self, and the autonomous transcendental ego. Westphal's phenomenology of faith sets this book into the main currents of Continental philosophy of religion today.
Автор: Giles Kelly Название: Surrendering to Transcendence ISBN: 0578110822 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780578110820 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3908.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The conclusion of an epic poetic trilogy, "surrendering to transcendence" explores and deepens the themes first encountered in "swimming in a thunderstorm", and developed further in "surfing the tsunami".
