Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is the Albert Guerard Professor in Literature Emeritus at Stanford University. His many books include Production of Presence (Stanford, 2004), In Praise of Athletic Beauty (2006), Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung (Stanford, 2012), After 1945 (Stanford, 2013), and Crowds (Stanford, 2021), and Prose of the World (Stanford, 2021).
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1. The Knot of the Voice:Energies of Impulse and Conceptual Intersections 2. Voices and Existential Spaces:The Fabric of Everyday Worlds 3. Singing Along:The Emergence of Mystical Bodies 4. Voices in History:Living Through Ontological Discontinuity 5. Voices and Imagining:On the Verge of Agency 6. Voices with Neutral Perfection:The Address of Transcendental Authority 7. Overwhelming Voices:An Unconcealment of Closeness Gratitude for Intellectual Closeness Notes
"A highly personal, even truly intimate book. Longtime fans and admirers of Gumbrecht's work will appreciate the personal nature of his approach in this book, and new readers will discover the voice of an elder statesman in academia." -Niklaus Largier, University of California, Berkeley "A spirited defense of how our closeness to each other is shown through the many lives of the voice, and the first book ever to give serious simultaneous consideration to Julius Caesar and Janis Joplin." -Miguel Tamen, University of Lisbon "This inspiring book shows how voice creates a common space, a mood, an atmosphere. It defines our place in the world, makes history possible, expresses the power of imagination, and opens a way to transcendence." -Thomas Pavel, The University of Chicago "Gumbrecht is one of our most astute observers of reality today. He reveals moments of existential density like no one else, inviting his readers to listen inward to the voices that redound to the call of art and existence." -Tone Roald, University of Copenhagen