Voice

David Appelbaum (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

155 Seiten

1990
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-0288-7 (ISBN)

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Drawing on clues from Aristotle, Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Jacobson, Condillac, and Diderot, Appelbaum investigates the vocalized, acoustical aspect of audible expression. He analyzes the tendency to equate voice with speaking, and speaking with writing, the result being that vocalizing is equivalent to thinking aloud. Appelbaum affirms the body's role in vocalizing expression by proposing a new and radical interpretation of the truth of voice: that it is true if it provides a disclosure of our human contradictions. Sound, or the acoustical properties of a person's voice, is able to bring about the revolutionary new set of conditions which reveal the truth of one's condition.

The author provides a unique account of the subjugation of voice by thought, indicating means for reversing the authority of the sound and for freeing up the voice. He concludes with the argument that poetic voice reconciles the search for semantic meaning with the raw, acoustical effect that the free voice causes.

David Appelbaum is professor of philosophy at The College at New Paltz, New York.

Preface

1. The Cough

2. The Laugh

3. On the Breath

4. The Verge of Madness

5. The Metaphor of Voice

6. Babble

7. Chant/Song

8. How the Deaf Come to Speak

9. The Poem

10. Plato and the Poets

Afterword

Notes

Partial Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.7.1990
Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	245 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-10	0-7914-0288-6 / 0791402886
ISBN-13	978-0-7914-0288-7 / 9780791402887
Zustand	Neuware