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All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage
ISBN: 9780823273980
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Espionage; Aesthetics; Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics; Motion pictures -- Aesthetics; Opera;

An archeology of auditory surveillance combined with an analysis of representations of spying in works of literature, music, and film that provide philosophical reflections on the drives that animate listening: the drive for mastery and the death drive.

Peter Szendy is David Herlihy Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Brown University and musicological advisor for the concert programs at the Paris Philharmonie. His books include Of Stigmatology: Punctuation as Experience ; All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage ; Apocalypse-Cinema: 2012 and Other Ends of the World ; Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials ; Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox ; and Listen: A History of Our Ears ..Végső Roland :

Roland Végső is Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.