Music beyond words

Thanks to Marc for suggsting the book on the Tudors.

This season I am giving a few friends copies of Vladimir Jankelevitch's Music and the Ineffable, in which Jankelevitch argues that music is not a message of coded symbols and rhythms, but a bodily experience that exceeds conceptualization and description. His inquiry into the ineffable was influential for many important thinkers including Emanuel Levinas and Roland Barthes, both of whom, in different ways, reject the description of consciousness that underwrites the Cartesian mind-body dualism. Jankelevitch was also important for Stanley Cavell, who infuenced Fegus Kerr's theological reading of Wittgenstein.  

What other books are we reading and giving? I would love to hear about the books that MOJ'ers have been reading this year.