“I See a Voice”

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What’s in a voice? Singing or talking, coaxing or ranting, whispering or chortling, the textures and tones of our voices are marvellous revelations of our individual personalities and moods. There is nothing more political than the voice of the people; nothing more religious than the voice of God; nothing more unsettling than the voice of conscience. The voice is a many-layered phenomenon, enfolding all the great themes of traditional philosophical reflection: nature and culture, reason and experience, transience and eternity, sincerity and dublicity, art and technique, truth and delusion, selfhood and annhilation, history and tradition, life and death.

I See a Voice escorts its readers on a vast and eventful intellectual journey taking in colour music and voice machines, shorthand and phonetics, Egyptian heiroglyphs, dance notations, and the origins of language, the division of the rainbow and the development of the musical scale, Proust and Dickens, structuralism and phenomenology, talking parrots and silent films. Above all it tells the painful story of those who have literally had no voice; the so-called “deaf and dumb”, whose inability to speak has usually been treated by the hearing world as proof that they are unreasonable and probably less than human. In a tour de force of historical narration, Jonathan Ree reconstructs the plight of the deaf, constantly beset by strange notions about sign language, writing and speech. /—/

Harper Collins 1999. (Paberkaantel tagant tükk ära rebenenud) 399 lk

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Jonathan Ree

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Harper Collins

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1999

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399

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