Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Akroatic Th inking -- 2 Vibrating Worlds and Listening Bodies -- 3 Premodern Perspectives on Language and Th ought -- 4 Contemporary Perspectives on Language and Th ought -- 5 Communication and a Nice Knock-Down Argument -- 6 Interlistening and the Tout Ensemble -- 7 Listening Others to Speech -- 8 Toward an Ethics of Attunement -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index