For More Than One Voice Cavarero Adriana
For More Than One Voice Cavarero Adriana The human voice does not deceive. We take this fact for granted--for example, every time someone asks, over the telephone, Who is speaking? The one who is…
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For More Than One Voice Cavarero Adriana
The human voice does not deceive. We take this fact for granted--for example, every time someone asks, over the telephone, Who is speaking? The one who is speaking is inevitably revealed by the singular sound of her voice, no matter what she says.
Starting from the given uniqueness of every voice, Cavarero rereads the history of philosophy through its peculiar evasion of this embodied uniqueness. and receives as a reply the familiar utterance, It's me. She shows how this history--along with the fields it comprehends, such as linguistics, musicology, political theory, and studies in orality--might be grasped as the devocalization of Logos, as the invariable privileging of semantike over phone, mind over body.
Female figures--from the Sirens to the Muses, from Echo to opera singers--provide a crucial counterhistory, one in which the embodied voice triumphs over the