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1 online resource (171 pages) |
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Summary |
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. |
Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; (No) More Ears: A Preface to the English- Language Edition; Translator's Note; Entrance: The Spies of Jericho; Discipline and Listen; Before the Wiretap; Overhearing and Diaphony; A Small History of Big Ears (Toward the Panacousticon); Mastery and Metrics in Figaro; The Ages of Fear; Telelistening and Telesurveillance; A Secret Conversation; Underground Passage: The Mole in Its Burrow; In the Footsteps of Orpheus; The Trackers, with Hidden Noise; The Mortal Ear, or Orpheus Turns Around; On the Phone: Papageno at Mabuse's; The Phantom of the Opera. |
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Wozzeck at the Moment of His DeathAdorno, the Informer; Exit: J.D.'s Dream; Notes; Bibliography. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Espionage.
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Espionage. |
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Aesthetics.
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Aesthetics. |
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. |
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Motion pictures -- Aesthetics.
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Opera.
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Motion pictures -- Aesthetics. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. |
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Opera. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. |
Added Author |
Végső, Roland.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Szendy, Peter. All Ears : The Aesthetics of Espionage. New York : Fordham University Press, ©2016 9780823273959 |
ISBN |
9780823273973 |
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0823273970 |
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9780823273980 |
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0823273989 |
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9780823273959 |
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