The Hum of the World. A Philosophy of Listening // Lawrence Kramer

2021, University of California Press, 256 pages

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The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it.

Lawrence Kramer's poetic book roves freely over music, media, language, philosophy, and science from the ancient world to the present.

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