A voice and nothing more / Mladen Dolar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dolar, Mladen.

Series:

Short circuits.

Short circuits

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voice (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

213, [1] p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The voice was not a major philosophical topic until the 1960s, when Derrida and Lacan separately proposed it as a central theoretical concern. Here, Dolar goes beyond Derrida's idea of "phonocentrism" and revives and develops Lacan's claim that the voice is one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object. He proposes that, apart from the uses of the voice as a vehicle of meaning and as a source of aesthetic admiration, there is a third level of understanding: the voice as an object that can be seen as the lever of thought. He investigates the object voice on a number of different levels--linguistics, metaphysics, ethics (the voice of conscience), the paradoxical relation between the voice and the body, the politics of the voice--and finally scrutinizes the uses of the voice in Freud and Kafka. With this foundational work, Dolar gives us a philosophically grounded theory of the voice as a Lacanian object-cause.--From publisher description.

Contents:

Intro

Series Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Linguistics of the Voice

Chapter 2 The Metaphysics of the Voice

Chapter 3 The "Physics" of the Voice

Chapter 4 The Ethics of the Voice

Chapter 5 The Politics of the Voice

Chapter 6 Freud's Voices

Chapter 7 Kafka's Voices

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-[214]) and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-26060-3

1-282-09773-3

9786612097737

0-262-28805-2

1-4294-7776-8

OCLC:

145621297