Stuart Hall's Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive

Stuart Hall's Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity

Stuart Hallâ€™s Voice explores the ethos of style that characterized Stuart Hallâ€™s intellectual vocation. David Scott frames the bookâ€”which he wrote as a series of letters to Hall in the wake of his deathâ€”as an evocation of friendship understood as the moral and intellectual medium in which his dialogical hermeneutic relationship with Hallâ€™s work unfolded. In this respect, the book asks: what do we owe intellectually to the work of those whom we know well, admire, and honor? Reflecting one of the lessons of Hallâ€™s style, the book responds: what we owe should be conceived less in terms of criticism than in terms of listening.Â
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Hallâ€™s intellectual life was animated by voice in literal and extended senses: not only was his voice distinctive in the materiality of its sound, but his thinking and writing were fundamentally shaped by a dialogical and reciprocal practice of speaking and listening. Voice, Scott suggests, is the central axis of the ethos of Hallâ€™s style.Â
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Against the backdrop of the consideration of the voiceâ€™s aspects, Scott specifically engages Hallâ€™s relationship to the concepts of "contingency" and "identity," concepts that were dimensions less of a method as such than of an attuned and responsive attitude to the world. This attitude, moreover, constituted an ethical orientation of Hallâ€™s that should be thought of as a special kind of generosity, namely a "receptive generosity," a generosity oriented as much around giving as receiving, as much around listening as speaking.
Country USA
Brand Duke University Press
Manufacturer Duke University Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2017-04-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780822363637

Country	USA
Brand	Duke University Press
Manufacturer	Duke University Press
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2017-04-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780822363637

Stuart Hall's Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity

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