Medusa's Ear: University Foundings from Kant to Chora L

by Dawne McCance

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791462471
• ISBN13: 9780791462478
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"