{"product_id":"the-disarticulate-2","title":"The Disarticulate","description":"\u003cp\u003eLanguage is integral to our\u003cbr\u003e\nsocial being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language?\u003cbr\u003e\nThe mentally disabled, “wild” children, people with autism and other\u003cbr\u003e\nneurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificial\u003cbr\u003e\nintelligences, have all engaged with language from a position at its borders.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn the intricate verbal constructions of modern literature, the\u003cbr\u003e\n‘disarticulate’—those at the edges of language—have, paradoxically, played\u003cbr\u003e\nessential, defining roles.\u003cbr\u003e\n Drawing on the disarticulate figures in\u003cbr\u003e\nmodern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and the Fury,\u003cbr\u003e\nNightwood, White Noise, and The Echo Maker, among others,\u003cbr\u003e\nJames Berger shows in this intellectually bracing study how these characters\u003cbr\u003e\nmark sites at which aesthetic, philosophical, ethical, political, medical, and\u003cbr\u003e\nscientific discourses converge. It is also the place of the greatest ethical\u003cbr\u003e\ntension, as society confronts the needs and desires of “the least of its\u003cbr\u003e\nbrothers.” Berger argues that the disarticulate is that which is unaccountable\u003cbr\u003e\nin the discourses of modernity and thus stands as an alternative to the\u003cbr\u003e\nprevailing social order. Using literary history and theory, as well as\u003cbr\u003e\ndisability and trauma theory, he examines how these disarticulate figures\u003cbr\u003e\nreveal modernity’s anxieties in terms of how it constructs its others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"James Berger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43572246216886,"sku":"9780814729069","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780814729069_aaf9ba59-ffbd-4f94-bace-89c18ab3ee39.jpg?v=1717431001","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-disarticulate-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}