Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece

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Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece represents the first wide-ranging philosophical study of the role of sound and hearing in the ancient Greek world. Because our modern western culture is a particularly visual one, we can overlook the significance of the auditory which was so central to the Greeks. The fifteen chapters of this edited volume explore "hearing" as being philosophically significant across numerous texts and figures in ancient Greek philosophy. Through close analysis of the philosophy of such figures as Homer, Heraclitus, Pythagoreans, Sophocles, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hearing, Sound, and Auditory in Ancient Greece presents new and unique research from philosophers and classicists that aims to redirect us to the ways in which sound, hearing, listening, voice, and even silence shaped and reflected the worldview of ancient Greece. Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Editor’s Introduction / Jill Gordon Part I. Listening to the Logoi 1. Wakeful Living, Wakeful Listening in Heraclitus / Drew A. Hyland 2. Sound, Water, and the Unity of Life in Empedocles / Michael M. Shaw 3. Indoor Voices: Adriana Cavarero and Jacques Derrida on the Devocalization of Logos in Plato / Michael Naas 4. Hearing, Touch, and Practical Intelligence in Aristotle’s Philosophy / Eve Rabinoff 5. Listening to the “Egg” / Sean Alexander Gurd Part II. Sound Education 6. Like Those Who Are Untested: Heraclitus’s Logos as Tuning Instrument for Psuche / Jessica Elbert Decker 7. Philosophical Listening in Plato’s Lysis / S. Montgomery Ewegen 8. Sound and the Soul in Plato / Ryan Drake Part III. Sound Politics 9. Listening to the Seventh Letter / Jill Gordon 10. Observations on Listening in Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy / I-Kai Jeng 11. Mis-aulogy: Aristotle on the Politics of Sound / Sara Brill Part IV. Alogos, Embodiment, and Silence 12. The Sound of Pain in Sophocles’s Philoctetes / Rebecca Steiner Goldner 13. Socratic Death Rattles: Pythagorean Hearing and Listening in Plato’s Phaedo / Kris McLain and Anne-Marie Schultz 14. Socrates’s Body and the Voice of Philosophy / James Barrett 15. Works of Silence / Jeremy Bell Index