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Author Szendy, Peter.

Title All Ears : the Aesthetics of Espionage.

Publication Info. New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.

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Description 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.
Wozzeck at the Moment of His DeathAdorno, the Informer; Exit: J.D.'s Dream; Notes; Bibliography.
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Subject Espionage.
Espionage.
Aesthetics.
Aesthetics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Motion pictures -- Aesthetics.
Opera.
Motion pictures -- Aesthetics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
Opera.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Added Author Végső, Roland.
Other Form: Print version: Szendy, Peter. All Ears : The Aesthetics of Espionage. New York : Fordham University Press, ©2016 9780823273959
ISBN 9780823273973
0823273970
9780823273980
0823273989
9780823273959