Language Pangs: On Pain and the Origin of Language

by Ilit Ferber

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 experience of pain without taking account its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190053860
• ISBN13: 9780190053864
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"