Listening

Name: Listening
Price: 25.65 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780823227730

ISBN-10: 0823227731

ISBN-13: 9780823227730

Edition: 4th 2007 (Annotated)

Authors: Jean-Luc Nancy, Charlotte Mandell, David Wills

List price: $28.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Buy new: $26.94

Marketplace

3 new & used from $25.65

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

In this lyrical meditation on listening, Jean-Luc Nancy examines sound in relation to the human body. How is listening different from hearing? What does listening entail? How does what is heard differ from what is seen? Can philosophy even address listening, ?couter, as opposed to entendre, which means both hearing and understanding? Unlike the visual arts, sound produces effects that persist long after it has stopped. The body, Nancy says, is itself like an echo chamber, responding to music by inner vibrations as well as outer attentiveness. Since "the ear has no eyelid," (Quignard) sound cannot be blocked out or ignored: our whole being is involved in listening, just as it is involved in…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 5/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 100
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.99" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English