Medusa's Ear

Medusa's Ear
Title Medusa's Ear PDF eBook
Author Dawne McCance
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 181
Release 2012-02-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0791484297

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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 the trope—and terror—of the deaf ear and mute mouth in the discourse on the university that was inaugurated by Kant and that extends through Hegel and Heidegger to the present. She shows how, repeatedly, in founding texts on the modern research university, the philosopher's fearful recoil from an animal-female figure that he defines as deaf and dumb has the effect—the Medusa-effect—of cutting off his own, and therefore the institution's, ear and tongue. McCance also considers some recent efforts to shake the modern institution out of its Medusa-effect petrification.

The Wanderings of Aletes, and Other Poems. By Matthew of Gower, Etc

The Wanderings of Aletes, and Other Poems. By Matthew of Gower, Etc
Title The Wanderings of Aletes, and Other Poems. By Matthew of Gower, Etc PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 164
Release 1871
Genre
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The New Medusa, and Other Poems

The New Medusa, and Other Poems
Title The New Medusa, and Other Poems PDF eBook
Author Eugene Lee-Hamilton
Publisher
Pages 128
Release 1882
Genre English poetry
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Medusa's Head

Medusa's Head
Title Medusa's Head PDF eBook
Author Josephine Daskam Bacon
Publisher
Pages 138
Release 1926
Genre
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Herd Book

Herd Book
Title Herd Book PDF eBook
Author National Pig Breeders' Association, London
Publisher
Pages 1362
Release 1924
Genre Swine
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Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia

Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia
Title Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 992
Release 1897
Genre
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Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia

Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia
Title Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia PDF eBook
Author Charles Kendall Adams
Publisher
Pages 1002
Release 1896
Genre Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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