{"product_id":"the-disarticulate-9780814725306","title":"The Disarticulate","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLanguage is integral to our\u003cbr\u003esocial being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language?\u003cbr\u003eThe mentally disabled, wild children, people with autism and other\u003cbr\u003eneurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificial\u003cbr\u003eintelligences, have all engaged with language from a position at its borders.\u003cbr\u003eIn the intricate verbal constructions of modern literature, the\u003cbr\u003edisarticulate'those at the edges of languagehave, paradoxically, played\u003cbr\u003eessential, defining roles.\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on the disarticulate figures in\u003cbr\u003emodern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and the Fury,\u003cbr\u003eNightwood, White Noise, and The Echo Maker, among others,\u003cbr\u003eJames Berger shows in this intellectually bracing study how these characters\u003cbr\u003emark sites at which aesthetic, philosophical, ethical, political, medical, and\u003cbr\u003escientific discourses converge. It is also the place of the greatest ethical\u003cbr\u003etension, as society confronts the needs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[T]he book is a valuable contribution to disability studies both for its speculations and specific readings. It is a very thoughtful and thought-filled work, nuanced and wide-ranging, which should have an effect on the field. * Critical Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Introduction: Disarticulate and Dysarticulate  1. The Bearing Across of Language: Care, Catachresis, and Political Failure  2. Linguistic Impairment and the Default of Modernism: Totality and Otherness: Dys-\/Disarticulate Modernity  3. Post-Modern Wild Children, Falling Towers, and the Counter-Linguistic Turn  4. Dys-\/Disarticulation and Disability  5. Alterity Is Relative: Impairment, Narrative, and Care in an Age of Neuroscience  Epilogue: \"Language in Dissolution\" and \"A World without Words\" Notes Works Cited Index About the Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405873160535,"sku":"9780814725306","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780814725306.jpg?v=1730493758","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-disarticulate-9780814725306","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}