Seidler, Victor. 2023. Ethical humans: Sounds, bodies, sufferings and aliveness. Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, ISSN 1757-1952 [Article]

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This article explores the way sound, music, rhythm and movement reflect experiences of suffering, trauma and aliveness by reflecting on colonializing and decolonializing modes of understanding the role played by sounds and music in living through suffering, displacement, cultural devastation and illness. Music and sound practices offer people ways of connecting life narratives and coping mechanisms to deal with loss and suffering. A peculiar aliveness of the body is mediated by sound and rhythm. The experiences with personal and cultural suffering of Richard Wilhelm, Simone Weil, Ludwig Wittgenstein and people in the author’s life are read against the background of the ethical and communicative dimensions of sound and music, in an ethnographic and auto-ethnographic as much a philosophical study.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1386/ejpc_00053_1
Keywords:	decolonization; embodiment; music; soundscapes; Weil; Wittgenstein
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Sociology
Dates:	Date Event 24 March 2023 Accepted 1 August 2023 Published
Item ID:	33971
Date Deposited:	22 Aug 2023 09:35
Last Modified:	22 Aug 2023 09:36
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/33971

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