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Author Szendy, Peter.

Title All Ears : the Aesthetics of Espionage
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (171 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; (No) More Ears: A Preface to the English- Language Edition; Translator's Note; Entrance: The Spies of Jericho; Discipline and Listen; Before the Wiretap; Overhearing and Diaphony; A Small History of Big Ears (Toward the Panacousticon); Mastery and Metrics in Figaro; The Ages of Fear; Telelistening and Telesurveillance; A Secret Conversation; Underground Passage: The Mole in Its Burrow; In the Footsteps of Orpheus; The Trackers, with Hidden Noise; The Mortal Ear, or Orpheus Turns Around; On the Phone: Papageno at Mabuse's; The Phantom of the Opera
Wozzeck at the Moment of His DeathAdorno, the Informer; Exit: J.D.'s Dream; Notes; Bibliography
Summary An archeology of auditory surveillance combined with an analysis of representations of spying in works of literature, music, and film that provide philosophical reflections on the drives that animate listening: the drive for mastery and the death drive
Notes Print version record
Subject Espionage.
Aesthetics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Motion pictures -- Aesthetics.
Opera
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Aesthetics.
Espionage.
Motion pictures -- Aesthetics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Opera.
Form Electronic book
Author Végső, Roland
ISBN 9780823273973
0823273970
9780823273980
0823273989