Foucault and the politics of hearing / Lauri Siisiäinen.

The issue of the senses and sensual perception in Michel Foucault's thought has been a source of prolific discussion already for quite some time. Often, Foucault has been accused of overemphasizing the centrality of sight, and has been portrayed as yet another thinker representative of Western...

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Main Author: Siisiäinen, Lauri
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
Series:Interventions (Routledge (Firm))
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Summary:The issue of the senses and sensual perception in Michel Foucault's thought has been a source of prolific discussion already for quite some time. Often, Foucault has been accused of overemphasizing the centrality of sight, and has been portrayed as yet another thinker representative of Western ocularcentricism. This innovative new work seeks to challenge this portrait by presenting an alternative view of Foucault as a thinker for whom the sound, voice, hearing, and listening, the auditory-sonorous, actually did matter. Illustrating how the auditory-sonorous relates most integrally to the most p.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 151 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780203108567
0203108566
9781136266409
1136266402
1283586118
9781283586115
9786613898562
6613898562
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.