Daniel Heller-Roazen approfondisce questioni di linguaggio, esperienza sensoriale e diritto attraverso diverse tradizioni letterarie. Il suo lavoro indaga come la nostra comprensione del mondo viene plasmata attraverso l'oblio e come l'essenza dell'esperienza umana si dispiega dal nostro rapporto con l'intangibile. Il suo stile autentico è caratterizzato da un'analisi acuta che intreccia filosofia, storia letteraria e teoria critica, offrendo ai lettori nuove prospettive su concetti fondamentali. Gli scritti di Heller-Roazen svelano profonde connessioni tra ambiti del pensiero e della cultura apparentemente disparati.
An original, elegant, and far-reaching philosophical inquiry into the sense of being sentient--what it means to feel that one is alive--that draws on philosophical, literary, psychological, and medical accounts from ancient, medieval, and modern cultures
"From missing persons to disenfranchised civil subjects, from individuals tainted with infamy to the dead, Absentees explores the varieties of "nonpersons," human beings all too human, drawing examples, terms and concepts from the archives of European and American literature, legal studies, and the social sciences"--
On the Forgetting of Language
"In Echolalias, Daniel Heller-Roazen reflects on the many forms of linguistic forgetfulness. In twenty-one concise chapters, he moves between classical, medieval, and modern culture, exploring the interrelations of speech, writing, memory, and oblivion. Whether the subject is medieval literature or modern fiction, classical Arabic poetry or the birth of French language, structuralist linguistics or Freud's writings on aphasia, Heller-Roazen considers with precision and insight the forms, effects, and ultimate consequences of the persistence and disappearance of language. In speech, he argues, destruction and construction often prove inseparable. Among speaking communities, the vanishing of one language can mark the emergence of another, and among individuals, the experience of the passing of speech can lie at the origin of literary, philosophical, and artistic creation."--Jacket
An exploration of secret languages, moving among hermetic artificial tongues as diverse as criminal jargons and divine speech.