Lives of the Voice: An Essay on Closeness

by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

When it comes to understanding the ontology of individual existence--that is, the everyday behaviors that we all perform and hardly ever think about--the voice has a particularly complicated status. Together with writing, voice is the medium expressing ideas that, broadly speaking, we have previously formed in our minds. At the same time, voices trigger vague images and associations that do not have determinate forms.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503642496
• ISBN13: 9781503642492
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages