Music in Renaissance Magic

Preface
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
Works Cited
Index