A Voice and Nothing More
$66.20
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
3 February 2006
Summary
A new, philosophically grounded theory of the voice-the voice as the lever of thought, as one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object.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 an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262541879 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262541874 |
| Author: | Mladen Dolar |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 3 February 2006 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Short Circuits |
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It takes a certain intrepid curiosity to pick up a book that is not of one’s universe—to plunge into an in-depth examination of a common phenomenon. But the payoff can be huge: a new meaning, new resonance accruing to something one previously paid barely any attention to. A Voice and Nothing More is such a book-a deeply academic yet readable inquiry into the nature of voice and its role as a bridge between nature and culture, subject and other, body and language, the personal and the political…Again, no worries: There will be no final exam; this is just life, examined carefully.
—Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe most telling, even thrilling, passages in this exacting book emphasize the intricate knitting together of body and soul in the voice…Though A Voice and Nothing More is driven throughout by ardent and formidable intelligence, Dolar is, like George Meridith’s A Later Alexandrian, mad for the kind of ‘mystic wryness’ that Lacanian theory so amply allows. Indeed, the last words of his book make it clear that he regards the mysteries of the voice as a kind of royal road to the Secret Doctrine of Psychoanalysis.
—Steven Connor, BookforumAbout The Author
Mladen Dolar
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.
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