Medusa's Ear: University Foundings from Kant to Chora L

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In traditional mythology and iconography, Medusa's killing powers are attributed to visual means: the monster is slain for her looks and her effect is to kill men for looking at her. Challenging the familiar account of the modern era as ocularcentric, this book reads the Medusa-effect on the philosophy of the modern research university as rooted in an audiocentric fantasy. Author Dawne McCance links phonocentrism to an aural imaginary by tracking...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0791462471

ISBN13:9780791462478

Release Date:October 2004

Publisher:State University of New York Press

Length:180 Pages

Weight:0.82 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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Education Education & Reference Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy

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