The Scene of the Voice: Thinking Language after Affect
The recent turns to affect and aesthetics in the humanities and the interpretive social sciences have been productive for reflecting on the crucial role sensibility plays in the constitution of the social. However, these scholarly developments construct their interventions by dismissing the attention to language that was central to the linguistic and cultural turns of previous eras and by claiming that language is an obstacle to experiencing the reality of difference to which they maintain only sensibility can grant access. By analyzing the figure of the voice in the work of Martin Heidegger and the continental thinkers who follow him, The Scene of the Voice shows that the dismissal of language in favor of sensibility requires overlooking their common connection in the problem of mimesis. As this book ultimately argues, artificially separating language and sensibility results in a failure to encounter affect, the relation to difference affect is said to name, and the experience of thinking affect is taken to provoke.
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The Scene of the Voice: Thinking Language after Affect
The recent turns to affect and aesthetics in the humanities and the interpretive social sciences have been productive for reflecting on the crucial role sensibility plays in the constitution of the social. However, these scholarly developments construct their interventions by dismissing the attention to language that was central to the linguistic and cultural turns of previous eras and by claiming that language is an obstacle to experiencing the reality of difference to which they maintain only sensibility can grant access. By analyzing the figure of the voice in the work of Martin Heidegger and the continental thinkers who follow him, The Scene of the Voice shows that the dismissal of language in favor of sensibility requires overlooking their common connection in the problem of mimesis. As this book ultimately argues, artificially separating language and sensibility results in a failure to encounter affect, the relation to difference affect is said to name, and the experience of thinking affect is taken to provoke.
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The Scene of the Voice: Thinking Language after Affect

The Scene of the Voice: Thinking Language after Affect

by Michael Eng
The Scene of the Voice: Thinking Language after Affect

The Scene of the Voice: Thinking Language after Affect

by Michael Eng

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The recent turns to affect and aesthetics in the humanities and the interpretive social sciences have been productive for reflecting on the crucial role sensibility plays in the constitution of the social. However, these scholarly developments construct their interventions by dismissing the attention to language that was central to the linguistic and cultural turns of previous eras and by claiming that language is an obstacle to experiencing the reality of difference to which they maintain only sensibility can grant access. By analyzing the figure of the voice in the work of Martin Heidegger and the continental thinkers who follow him, The Scene of the Voice shows that the dismissal of language in favor of sensibility requires overlooking their common connection in the problem of mimesis. As this book ultimately argues, artificially separating language and sensibility results in a failure to encounter affect, the relation to difference affect is said to name, and the experience of thinking affect is taken to provoke.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781438492513
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 09/02/2023
Series: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Pages: 314
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Michael Eng is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Appalachian State University.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

Part 1. Heidegger

1. The Voice: Sounding the Scene of Finitude

2. From Phonē to Logos : The Antagonism of Language and the Figuration of the Voice

3. A Finite Scene? Heidegger’s Antigones and the Returns of the Voice

Part 2. Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe

4. Figuration and Finitude: Ontological Mimesis and Onto-typology between Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe

Part 3. Blanchot

5. The Other Night of the Voice: Desoeuvrement, Effacement, and the Limit-Experience of the Outside

Part 4. Deleuze

6. Deleuze and the Voice of Simulacra

Epilogue: Thinking and Language after Affect
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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