Listening

In this lyrical meditation on listening, Jean-Luc Nancy examines sound in relation to the human body. How...
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Author: Jean-Luc Nancy
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Listening by Nancy, Jean-Luc

Listening

€62,65

Listening

€62,65
Author: Jean-Luc Nancy
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 cannot be blocked out or ignored: our whole being is involved in listening, just as it is involved in interpreting what it hears.

The mystery of music and of its effects on the listener is subtly examined. Nancy's skill as a philosopher is to bring the reader companionably along with him as he examines these fresh and vital questions; by the end of the book the reader feels as if listening very carefully to a person talking quietly, close to the ear.

Author: Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 05/15/2007
Pages: 100
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780823227730

About the Author

Jean-Luc Nancy is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. Among the most recent of his many books to be published in English are Corpus; Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity; Noli me tangere: On the Raising of the Body; The Truth of Democracy; and
Adoration: The Destruction of Christianity II (all Fordham).

Charlotte Mandell has translated over twenty books, including several books for Fordham: Peter Szendy's Listen: A History of Our Ears and Jean-Luc Nancy's Listening. Her most recent translation is The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell.

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