Daniel Heller-Roazen explore les questions du langage, de l'expérience sensorielle et du droit à travers diverses traditions littéraires. Son œuvre examine comment notre compréhension du monde est façonnée par l'oubli et comment l'essence de l'expérience humaine se déploie à partir de notre rapport à l'intangible. Son style authentique se caractérise par une analyse pointue qui mêle philosophie, histoire littéraire et théorie critique, offrant aux lecteurs de nouvelles perspectives sur des concepts fondamentaux. Les écrits d'Heller-Roazen révèlent des liens profonds entre des domaines de la pensée et de la culture apparemment disparates.
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.