Listening - Annotated by Jean-Luc Nancy (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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? <p/>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. <p/>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>In Charlotte Mandell's splendid translation of Jean-Luc Nancy's brief but passionate A l'ecoute, the French philosopher gives us a glimpse of this completely different philosophy of music-- "--Current Musicology"<br><br>Listening adds a much needed poetic register to the philosophy of music and sonic culture.-- "--Parallax"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jean-Luc Nancy (Author) </b><br> <b>Jean-Luc Nancy</b> (1940-2016) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. His wide-ranging thought runs through many books, including <i>The Literary Absolute</i>, <i> Being Singular Plural, </i><i>The Ground of the Image</i>, <i>Listening</i>, <i>Corpus</i>, <i>The Disavowed Community, </i> and<i> Sexistence.</i> <p/><b>Charlotte Mandell (Translator) </b><br> Charlotte Mandell has translated more than forty books and is the recipient of numerous awards. <p/>
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