Music in renaissance magic : toward a historiography of others / Gary Tomlinson.
"Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige it had not held for over a millenium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philosophy. Renaissance music also suggested a form of universal knowledge through revived interest in two ancient themes: the Pyt...
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Approaching Others (Thoughts before Writing)
- Anthropology and Its Discontents
- Occult Thought and Hegemonic Histories
- The Hermeneutic Recognition of Others
- The Rehabilitation of Hermeneutic Dialogue
- Archaeology, Genealogy, and Hermeneutic History
- 2. The Scope of Renaissance Magic
- The New Magic
- The World of the Renaissance Magus
- Agrippa versus Foucault
- Locating Occult Musics
- 3. Modes and Planetary Song: The Musical Alliance of Ethics and Cosmology
- Structures and Their Reproduction
- Structural Transformations circa 1500
- Structure and Event
- 4. Ficino's Magical Songs
- Spirit, Soul, Music
- Word, Image, Music
- Phantasmic and Demonic Song
- Substance, Figure, Sound
- Seeing and Hearing in the Renaissance
- 5. Musical Possession and Musical Soul Loss
- Possession, Shamanism, and Soul Loss
- Musical Soul Loss and Possession: Examples from Nonelite Culture
- Possession and Soul Loss in Ficino's Furors
- Thoughts on the Politics of Early-Modern Mysticism
- 6. An Archaeology of Poetic Furor, 1500-1650
- Foucault's Epistemes
- Magical Furor
- Analytic Furor
- Poetic Furor and Archaeological Ambivalence circa 1600
- 7. Archaeology and Music: Apropos of Monteverdi's Musical Magic
- 8. Believing Others (Thoughts upon Writing)
- Appendix: Passages Translated in the Text.