Hillel Schwartz

Auteur de The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles

12+ oeuvres 387 utilisateurs 3 critiques

A propos de l'auteur

Hillel Schwartz is an independent scholar, poet, translator, and public arts consultant. He has written Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang Beyond; Century's End: A Cultural History of the Fin de Siecle from the 990s through the 1990s; and Never Satisfied: A Cultural History of Diets, afficher plus Fantasies and Fat. afficher moins

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The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles (1996) 187 exemplaires

Never Satisfied : A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies & Fat (1986) 85 exemplaires

Century's End: A Cultural History of the Fin De Siecle From the 990s Through the 1990s (1989) 50 exemplaires

Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond (2011) 50 exemplaires

The French Prophets: the history of a millenarian group in eighteenth-century England (1980) 5 exemplaires

Knaves, fools, madmen, and that subtile effluvium : a study of the opposition to the French prophets in England,… (1978) 2 exemplaires

Phantom Children (1982) 2 exemplaires

RevoluĐcÄao genÂetica: histÂorias fantÂasticas e inovadoras da engenharia da vida (1992) 2 exemplaires

Noise and Silence: The Soundscape and Spirituality 1 exemplaire

MILLENARIANISM: AN OVERVIEW: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's Encyclopedia of Religion (2005) 1 exemplaire

SACRED TIME: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's Encyclopedia of Religion (2005) 1 exemplaire

Bob the worm: The life cycle of an entomopathogenic Heterorhabditis nematode (2015) 1 exemplaire

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Oeuvres associées

The Best American Poetry 1997 (1997) — Contributeur — 167 exemplaires

Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (2018) — Contributeur; Contributeur — 25 exemplaires

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Sexe: male
Lieux de résidence: Encinitas, California, USA
Études: Brandeis University (BA|1969)
Yale University (PhD|1974)
University of California, Berkeley (MLS|1975)
Organisations: University of California, San Diego

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Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond par Hillel Schwartz

This is a brilliant explication of the social history of noise. Noise of all kinds, from the ambient sounds of the city, to the murmurs from under the sea and from out in the cosmos. Visual noise, static, stochastic processes, whale songs, street criers, the moans and groans of sex, military noise, noise in the lab, noise in prisons, the sounds of animals, and, of course, those things that go bump in the night all make an appearance.

It's dense, obsessive, and filled with arcane details and witty digressions. Hillel Schwartz seems to have read and synthesized everything on the topic, from technical scientific papers to the rantings of cranks. The prose is rather florid -- the author suggests that book be read aloud -- and the richness of the text forms its own kind of noise. Unlike, for example, Foucault's History of Madness, which this book superficially resembles, Schwartz isn't grinding a thesis but rather reveling in his topic, like a jazz musician riffing on a theme. The book is a pure pleasure.… (plus d'informations)

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le.vert.galant | Jan 26, 2015 |