LEADER 03790nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910974789203321 005 20251116214630.0 010 $a0-7914-8429-7 010 $a1-4237-4015-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000458414 035 $a(OCoLC)124132301 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579106 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000200851 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11202904 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000200851 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10231573 035 $a(PQKB)11424816 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407683 035 $a(OCoLC)62622825 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6208 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407683 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579106 035 $a(OCoLC)923407921 035 $a(BIP)41609094 035 $a(BIP)9454999 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000458414 100 $a20031204d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMedusa's ear $euniversity foundings from Kant to Chora L /$fDawne McCance 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (181 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-7914-6247-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 149-158) and index. 327 $aIntro -- MEDUSA'S EAR -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. MOURNING THE VOICE -- 2. THE ARCHITECTURE OF INSTITUTION -- 3. PASSAGES -- 4. WHO HAS EARS TO HEAR? -- 5. FOUR WAYS OF READING TWO PAIRS: OF SHOES -- 6. ARCHITECTURE'S (THE UNIVERSITY'S) CHORA: TWO POSTMODERN COLLABORATIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z. 330 $aReads modern philosophy (and the university) as rooted in an audiocentric fantasy. In traditional mythology and iconography, Medusa's killing powers are attributed to visual means: the monster is slain for her looks and her effect is to kill men for looking at her. Challenging the familiar account of the modern era as ocularcentric, this book reads the Medusa-effect on the philosophy of the modern research university as rooted in an audiocentric fantasy. Author Dawne McCance links phonocentrism to an aural imaginary by tracking the trope--and terror--of the deaf ear and mute mouth in the discourse on the university that was inaugurated by Kant and that extends through Hegel and Heidegger to the present. She shows how, repeatedly, in founding texts on the modern research university, the philosopher's fearful recoil from an animal-female figure that he defines as deaf and dumb has the effect--the Medusa-effect--of cutting off his own, and therefore the institution's, ear and tongue. McCance also considers some recent efforts to shake the modern institution out of its Medusa-effect petrification. Dawne McCance is Professor and Head of the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba and a Fellow of St. John's College. She is the author of Posts: Re Addressing the Ethical , also published by SUNY Press, and the editor of Life Ethics in World Religions . 606 $aPostmodernism and higher education 606 $aPhilosophy, European 606 $aEducation, Higher$xPhilosophy 615 0$aPostmodernism and higher education. 615 0$aPhilosophy, European. 615 0$aEducation, Higher$xPhilosophy. 676 $a378/.001 700 $aMcCance$b Dawne$f1944-$0900087 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910974789203321 996 $aMedusa's ear$94469660 997 $aUNINA