Voice and Love: Between Sensible Presence, Desire, Mystery: In Plato, Roland Barthes, Paul Valéry

This essay on the philosophy of language explores the links between voice and love through the prism of three major thinkers: Plato, Roland Barthes and Paul Valéry. The author, Samuel Awadhifo Ayibho, analyzes the voice as a phenomenon oscillating between sensitive presence, desire and mystery. In Plato, the voice is treated as a reflection of the soul and a vital breath linked to Eros, capable of moving the spirit through its musicality. Roland Barthes, for his part, approaches the voice from the angle of desire and lack, notably through the timbre that makes the other both fascinating and tragically inaccessible, like a suspended echo. Finally, the study looks at Paul Valéry, for whom the voice embodies a mystery, an unfulfilled promise between presence and absence, illustrating the tension between consciousness and interiority. Using an analytical and documentary method, the book demonstrates that the voice is not simply a tool of communication, but the unique mark of being and the driving force behind lovemaking.

Pagina's: 52, Paperback, Our Knowledge Publishing