The language of touch philosophical examinations in linguistics and haptic studies / edited by Mirt Komel.

Other author Komel, Mirt.
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Publication InfoLondon, UK : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
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Contents The wave of the sign: pyramidal sign, haptic hieroglyphs, and the touch of language / Mirt Komel -- The structure of the phonetical touch: unsettling the mastery of phonology over phonetics / Tomi Bartole -- Surplus of touch: from the forest of symbols to the jungle of touch / Karmen Šterk -- Ontology of touch: from Aristotle to Brentano / Gregor Moder -- Anatomical aporia: speculative unity of touch and language / Goran Vraneševic -- The category of the (un)touchable in haptic materialism: touch, repetition, and language / Bara Kolenc -- The lick of the mother tongue: Derrida's fantasies of "the touch of language" with Augustine and Marx / Rachel Aumiller -- On the touch of swear words: swearing and the Lacanian real / Peter Klepec -- Proper names: being in touch with the real / Jela Krecic-Žižek -- Ethics of touch: Doctor Who's untouchable touch / Eva Vrtacic -- Screaming contagions: the scream as haptic contagion / Zack Sievers.
Abstract "Offering an in-depth analysis of the relationship between touch and language through the history of philosophy, this book revitalizes the field of haptic studies, which often fails to address the ontological nature of touch, providing new insights in the philosophy of language. This book draws together an international team of linguists, anthropologists and philosophers, many of whom are members of the 'second generation' of Ljubljana's School of Theoretical Psychoanalysis, to demonstrate from a variety of disciplinary perspectives that the experience of touch is inextricable from the structure of language. Examining the intersections between phenomenology, Marxism and poststructural linguistics, this work draws upon figures such as Nancy, Derrida and Lacan to question both how language structures touch and how touch structures language"-- Provided by publisher.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Language of touch London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 9781350059269
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