{"product_id":"the-disarticulate-9780814725306","title":"The Disarticulate","description":"\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\u003e‘disarticulate’—those at the edges of language—have, paradoxically, played\u003cbr\u003eessential, defining roles.\u003cbr\u003e\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 and desires of “the least of its\u003cbr\u003ebrothers.” Berger argues that the disarticulate is that which is unaccountable\u003cbr\u003ein the discourses of modernity and thus stands as an alternative to the\u003cbr\u003eprevailing social order. Using literary history and theory, as well as\u003cbr\u003edisability and trauma theory, he examines how these disarticulate figures\u003cbr\u003ereveal modernity’s anxieties in terms of how it constructs its others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Berger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274206687483,"sku":"9780814725306","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_76d8c7bd-101e-4cb3-adbf-5d7d1146f929.jpg?v=1777695415","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-disarticulate-9780814725306","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}