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For More than One Voice - Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression (Hardcover, First)
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For More than One Voice - Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression (Hardcover, First)
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The human voice does not deceive. The one who is speaking is
inevitably revealed by the singular sound of her voice, no matter
"what" she says. We take this fact for granted--for example, every
time someone asks, over the telephone, "Who is speaking?" and
receives as a reply the familiar utterance, "It's me." Starting
from the given uniqueness of every voice, Cavarero rereads the
history of philosophy through its peculiar evasion of this embodied
uniqueness. She shows how this history--along with the fields it
comprehends, such as linguistics, musicology, political theory, and
studies in orality--might be grasped as the "devocalization of
Logos," as the invariable privileging of semantike over phone, mind
over body. Female figures--from the Sirens to the Muses, from Echo
to opera singers--provide a crucial counterhistory, one in which
the embodied voice triumphs over the immaterial semantic.
Reconstructing this counterhistory, Cavarero proposes a "politics
of the voice" wherein the ancient bond between Logos and politics
is reconfigured, and wherein what matters is not the communicative
content of a given discourse, but rather who is speaking.
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