Voice and Nothing More

Name: Voice and Nothing More
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ISBN: 9780262541879

ISBN-10: 0262541874

ISBN-13: 9780262541879

Edition: 2006

Authors: Mladen Dolar, Stockholm Inst Of Transition Staff

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Plutarch tells the story of a man who plucked a nightingale and finding but little to eat exclaimed: "You are just a voice and nothing more." Plucking the feathers of meaning that cover the voice, dismantling the body from which the voice seems to emanate, resisting the Sirens' song of fascination with the voice, concentrating on "the voice and nothing more": this is the difficult task that philosopher Mladen Dolar relentlessly pursues in this seminal work. The voice did not figure as a major philosophical topic until the 1960s, when Derrida and Lacan separately proposed it as a central theoretical concern. In A Voice and Nothing More Dolargoes beyond Derrida's idea of "phonocentrism" and…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/3/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.39" wide x 7.95" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Mladen Dolar taught for 20 years in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he now works as a Senior Research Fellow. He is the author of a number of books, most recently (with Slavoj Zizek) Opera's Second Death.



Series Foreword


Introduction: Che bella voce!



The Linguistics of the Voice



The Metaphysics of the Voice



The "Physics" of the Voice



The Ethics of the Voice



The Politics of the Voice



Freud's Voices



Kafka's Voices


Notes


Bibliography


Index