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Beyond Lacoue-Labarthe’s Alma Mater : mus(e)ic, myth and modernity (2017)
Journal Article
Hickmott, S. (2017). Beyond Lacoue-Labarthe’s Alma Mater : mus(e)ic, myth and modernity. Esprit Créateur, 57(4), 174-188. https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2017.0047

Addressing the role of music in Lacoue-Labarthe’s thinking, this article identifies a tension between his commitment to a nostalgic narrative that insists on the maternal/uterine origins of music’s emotional essence and his critique of the way that m... Read More about Beyond Lacoue-Labarthe’s Alma Mater : mus(e)ic, myth and modernity.

(En) Corps Sonore: Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Sonotropism” (2015)
Journal Article
Hickmott, S. (2015). (En) Corps Sonore: Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Sonotropism”. French Studies, 69(4), 479-493. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knv152

This article offers a critical, feminist, and interdisciplinary account of the question of listening in Jean-Luc Nancy's 2002 text, À l'écoute. Nancy's text is at once an auditory counterpart to his larger philosophical project; an articulation of th... Read More about (En) Corps Sonore: Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Sonotropism”.