9. From Past to Present and from Listening to Hearing: Final Indefinable Moments in Bach’s and Stravinsky’s Music

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Abbreviations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction: On Religion and Pastness 1
6. Part I Time and Eternity: Between and Betwixt
7. 1. The Vision at Ostia: Augustine’s Desire to Become a Red Indian 17
8. 2. Memory and the Sublime: Wittgenstein on Augustine’s Trouble with Time 32
9. Part II Moving Progressively Backward
10. 3. The Man without Memory: Peter Abelard and Trust in History 45
11. 4. Creation and Epiphanic Incarnation: Reflections on the Future of Natural Theology from an Eriugenian- Emersonian Perspective 64
12. 5. The Care of the Past: The Place of Pastness in Transgenerational Projects 89
13. 6. Trembling in Time: Silence and Meaning between Barthes, Chateaubriand, and Rancé 100
14. Part III
15. 7. The Literary Comfort of Eternity: Calvin and Thoreau 123
16. 8. The Past and History in Ordinary Language Philosophy 137
17. Part IV Time and Lateness
18. 9. From Past to Present and from Listening to Hearing: Final Indefinable Moments in Bach’s and Stravinsky’s Music 155
19. 10. Late Style Messiaen 175
20. Part V Time and Oblivion
21. 11. Of Shakespeare and Pastness 189
22. 12. The Anger of Angels: From Rubens to Virginia Woolf 204
23. Notes 231
24. List of Contributors 269