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Author Ferber, Ilit, author.

Title Language pangs : on pain and the origin of language / Ilit Ferber
Published New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2019]

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Contents On Pain and the Origin of Language -- A Language of Pain : Herder and the Origin of Language -- Language and Attention : Herder on Besonnenheit -- Language and Hearing : Heidegger's Herder -- Pain, Expression and Sympathy : Philoctetes -- Language Pangs
Summary We usually think about language and pain as opposites: the one is about expression and communication, the other very private, unspeakable and isolating. Language Pangs challenges these familiar conceptions and proposes a reconsideration of the relationship between pain and language in terms of an essential interconnectedness, rather than the common exclusive opposition. Language Pangs brings together discussions of philosophical as well as literary texts focusing on the relationship between pain and language. It provides close readings of Johann Gottfried Herder's Treatise on the Origin of Lan
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 30, 2019)
Subject Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803. Abhandlung über den Ursprung der Sprache.
SUBJECT Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803. fast (OCoLC)fst00047505
Abhandlung über den Ursprung der Sprache (Herder, Johann Gottfried) fast (OCoLC)fst01360501
Subject Senses and sensation.
Pain -- Philosophy
Phenomenology.
Language and languages -- Origin.
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Sensation
phenomenology.
PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
Language and languages -- Origin.
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Pain -- Philosophy.
Phenomenology.
Senses and sensation.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019981162
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