02242nam a22003614a 4500 ebr10173635 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 050831s2006 maua sb 001 0 eng 2005054457 GBA620915 bnb 013397159 Uk 0262541874 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780262541879 CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)191952892 B105.V64 D65 2006eb 128 22 Dolar, Mladen. A voice and nothing more [electronic resource] / Mladen Dolar. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006. 213, [1] p. : ill. Short circuits Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-[214]) and index. The voice was not a major philosophical topic until the 1960s, when Derrida and Lacan separately proposed it as a central theoretical concern. Here, Dolar goes beyond Derrida's idea of "phonocentrism" and revives and develops Lacan's claim that the voice is one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object. He proposes that, apart from the uses of the voice as a vehicle of meaning and as a source of aesthetic admiration, there is a third level of understanding: the voice as an object that can be seen as the lever of thought. He investigates the object voice on a number of different levels--linguistics, metaphysics, ethics (the voice of conscience), the paradoxical relation between the voice and the body, the politics of the voice--and finally scrutinizes the uses of the voice in Freud and Kafka. With this foundational work, Dolar gives us a philosophically grounded theory of the voice as a Lacanian object-cause.--From publisher description. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Voice (Philosophy) Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Short circuits. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10173635 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 247917 247917