The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening

by Lawrence Kramer

Book Overview

The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas with playful wit and lyrical prose, this imaginative volume identifies the role of sound in Western experience as the primary medium in which the presence and persistence of life acquire tangible form. The positive experience of aliveness is not merely in accord with sound, but inaccessible, even inconceivable,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520382994
• ISBN13: 9780520382992
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"