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Ihde, D. (1976) Listening and Voice: A Phenomenology of Sound. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press.

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Jay, M. (1993) Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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