Language Pangs: On Pain and the Origin of Language - Hardcover
by Ilit Ferber
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190053864ISBN-10:190053860UPC:9780190053864Book Category:Philosophy, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Language, Developmental, EpistemologyBook Topic:ChildSize:9.30 x 6.30 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCM4WDZSPC
Language Pangs: On Pain and the Origin of Language
We usually think about language and pain as opposites, the one being about expression and connection, the other destructive, "beyond words" so to speak, and isolating. Language Pangs challenges these familiar conceptions and offers a radical reconsideration of the relationship between pain and language in terms of an essential interconnectedness. Ilit Ferber's premise is that we cannot probe the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190053864ISBN-10:190053860UPC:9780190053864Book Category:Philosophy, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Language, Developmental, EpistemologyBook Topic:ChildSize:9.30 x 6.30 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCM4WDZSPC
Ilit Ferber is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University. She is the author of Philosophy and Melancholy: Benjamin's Early Reflections on Theater and Language (Stanford University Press, 2013) and co-editor of three books on the philosophy of moods and on the language of lament. She has published numerous articles on Leibniz, Herder, Freud, Benjamin, Heidegger, Scholem, and Am?ry.
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