Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. List of Abbreviations XI
5. Introduction: Hearing Otherwise 1
6. 1 Walter Benjamin’s Shell-Shock: Sounding the Acoustical Unconscious 28
7. 2 Of Birds and Barks: Listening in on the Forgotten in Freud, Benjamin, and Tieck 66
8. 3 Voices Carry: Benjamin and Arnheim on Radio 102
9. 4 Glimpsing the World through Our Ears: Günter Eich and the Acoustical Unconscious 155
10. 5 Clatter in Kracauer and Kluge: Politicizing the Acoustical Unconscious 192
11. Conclusion: Toward a Genealogy of the Acoustical Unconscious 239
12. Works Cited 249
13. Index 261