Szendy, Peter. <br/><br/>
All Ears  The Aesthetics of Espionage. 

 - New York :  Fordham University Press,  (c)2016. 
 - 1 online resource (171 pages) 
<br/><br/> Description based upon print version of record. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; (No) More Ears: A Preface to the English- Language Edition; Translator's Note; Entrance: The Spies of Jericho; Discipline and Listen; Before the Wiretap; Overhearing and Diaphony; A Small History of Big Ears (Toward the Panacousticon); Mastery and Metrics in Figaro; The Ages of Fear; Telelistening and Telesurveillance; A Secret Conversation; Underground Passage: The Mole in Its Burrow; In the Footsteps of Orpheus; The Trackers, with Hidden Noise; The Mortal Ear, or Orpheus Turns Around; On the Phone: Papageno at Mabuse's; The Phantom of the Opera Wozzeck at the Moment of His DeathAdorno, the Informer; Exit: J.D.'s Dream; Notes; Bibliography 
<br/><br/> An archeology of auditory surveillance combined with an analysis of representations of spying in works of literature, music, and film that provide philosophical reflections on the drives that animate listening: the drive for mastery and the death drive. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780823273973 9780823273980 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Espionage.<br/>Aesthetics.<br/>Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.<br/>Motion pictures--Aesthetics.<br/>Opera.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BH301  / .A454 2016