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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, écouter, 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 cann No library descriptions found. |
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(as a side note, i find it a little suspect that this book is supposed to be anti-authoritarian despite its only examples of music being classical compositions) ( )