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Stuart Hall´s Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity
David Scott
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Hardback. In these series of letters-which David Scott wrote to Stuart Hall following his death-Scott characterizes Hall's voice and his practice of speaking, listening, and generosity as the foundational elements of Hall's intellectual work. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Stuart Hall's Voice explores the ethos of style that characterized Stuart Hall's intellectual vocation. David Scott frames the book-which he wrote as a series of letters to Hall in the wake of his death-as an evocation of friendship understood as the moral and intellectual medium in which his dialogical hermeneutic relationship with Hall's work unfolded. In this respect, the book asks: what do we owe intellectually to the work of those whom we know well, admire, and honor? Reflecting one of the lessons of Hall's style, the book responds: what we owe should be conceived less in terms of criticism ... Read more
Stuart Hall's Voice explores the ethos of style that characterized Stuart Hall's intellectual vocation. David Scott frames the book-which he wrote as a series of letters to Hall in the wake of his death-as an evocation of friendship understood as the moral and intellectual medium in which his dialogical hermeneutic relationship with Hall's work unfolded. In this respect, the book asks: what do we owe intellectually to the work of those whom we know well, admire, and honor? Reflecting one of the lessons of Hall's style, the book responds: what we owe should be conceived less in terms of criticism ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822363637
SKU
V9780822363637
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About David Scott
David Scott is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of a number of books, including Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice and Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment, and is the editor of Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, all also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews for Stuart Hall´s Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity
[A] triumphant and sensitive exploration into a tricky and fascinating topic. . . . Scott's book serves as a welcome reminder that to think comprehensively with and through the work of Stuart Hall, we cannot neglect his powerful voice which, in exhibiting a particular kind of stylistic ethos, embraced listening and learning as much, if not more, than it did ... Read more