The Matter of Voice: Sensual Soundings

Karmen MacKendrick

Published by Fordham University Press 2016

The Matter of Voice

Sensual Soundings

Karmen MacKendrick

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823270026

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About this book

Voices are material, somatic, and musical. They are also meaningful—they give body to concepts that cannot exist in abstractions. Through explorations of theology, pedagogy, translation, and more, this book works toward reintegrating our thinking about words as a fleshy combining of meaning and music.

Author / Editor information

MacKendrick Karmen :

Karmen MacKendrick is a professor of philosophy and an associate chair of the McDevitt Center for Creativity and Innovation at Le Moyne College. Her work in philosophical theology is entangled with several other disciplines, particularly those involved with words, with flesh, or with the pleasures to be taken in both. These preoccupations appear in several books, most recently Divine Enticement: Theological Seductions (Fordham University Press, 2013).

Reviews

—Lawrence Kramer:
In this eloquently written and elegantly conceived book, Karmen MacKendrick speaks for voice--and speaks up for it--in much-needed new terms. MacKendrick ask us to recognize that voice matters in part because it is matter. The bodily and musical qualities of voice have rarely, if ever, been given their philosophical due. Moving across a wide span of concerns from literature to theology, The Matter of Voice shows why that gap in our thinking should be filled and proceeds to fill it memorably.

—Patricia Cox Miller:
The Matter of Voice is a work of philosophical theology in a multidisciplinary and poetic key. Its central organizing insight is that voice and voicing are productive of corporeality and rhythm in language. As MacKendrick shows, at the heart of the voice is 'an irreducible and carnal strangeness' that refuses closure and invites passion back into thinking. The book is a sterling exemplar of the richness that results from attending to the somatic quality of words, yielding a layering of ideas that forms a virtual chorus of multiperspectival thinking.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
To the memory of Helen Tartar Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Hearing Voices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Matter of Voice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. Speaking to Learn to Listen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3. Thou Art Translated! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
4. The Voice in the Mirror Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
5. Original Breath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
6. The Meaning in the Music Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 216
Keywords: voice; speaking voice; musicality; flesh; spoken word

eBook

Published: May 2, 2016
ISBN: 9780823270026