Hearing Things
Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment
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Word Count
88,000 words, Guess
Page Count
352 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7670376M
- ISBN-139780674003033
- ISBN-100674003039
- OCLC Control Number43913252
- OCLC Control Numberhearingthingsrel0000schm
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number00038930
- LibraryThing396320
- Goodreads1773628
Classifications
- LCCBV4647.L56 S34 2000
Description
"Leigh Eric Schmidt conducts us through natural histories of the oracles, anatomies of the diseased ear, psychologies of the unsound mind, acoustic technologies (from speaking trumpets to talking machines), philosophical regimens for educating the senses, and rational recreations elaborated from natural magic, notably ventriloquism and speaking statues. Hearing Things enters this labyrinth - all the new disciplines and pleasures of the modern ear - to explore the fate of Christian listening during the Enlightenment and its aftermath." "In Schmidt's analysis the reimagining of hearing was instrumental in constituting religion itself as an object of study and suspicion. The mystic's ear was hardly lost, but it was now marked deeply with imposture and illusion."--BOOK JACKET.
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