Overture
I. The Willful Deafness of Philosophers
- Do birds sing?
- Voice is sound
- Socrates the flute
- Singing among men
- The temptation of beautiful song
- A guilty and tragic pleasure
II. The Auditory Turn in Philosophy
- Born from the ear
- To think well is to hear well
- Who do I hear when I speak?
III. Thinking with an Accent?
- Accent is something others have
- Writing to no longer hear yourself
- Jackie Derrida had an accent that (got) killed
- Writing with an accent
IV. Screams and Suffocations
- Breath before the syllable
- Cries of thought
- The cry’s voice
V. Silences and Murmurs
- Listening to silences
- Puncturing speech
- Shhh!
VI. The Notion of Soundscape and its Ambiguities
- Acoustic revolutions
- Sonic ecologies
VII. Acoustic Modernities and Thought Experiments
- The telephonic voice
- Microphone thoughts
VIII. Thinking through Sound Mixing
- Soundtracks of philosophical thought
- The politics of noises
IX. The Sonic Ecology of Texts
- Relational sound
- The sonic depths of the world
- Phonetic animals
X. Listening to Texts Again ... with at least Three Ears
- The sense of sound
- The third ear
- The reader’s tertiary voice
