Language Pangs: On Pain and the Origin of Language

ISBN-13: 9780190053864 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 208 str.

Ilit Ferber

Recenzje

Guided by sophisticated analyses of Herder and Heidegger, Ferber shows how the experience of pain, far from simply being world-destructive, as has been claimed in some contemporary scholarship, is an essential and indeed irreducible element of any language that in its world-making capacity is community-constructive. An incisive contribution to the broader renaissance of the 'expressivist' conception of language that emerges from Herder's writings, Language Pangs culminates in an exemplary reading of Sophocles' Philoctetes, where the value of literature for the advancement of philosophical reflection can be seen with the utmost clarity.

O autorze

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 Améry.