La Mélancolie du langage perdu de l’enfance
Paperback (Forthcoming)
(December 2026)
ISBN: 9782406211679
5.94 x 8.66 inches
Price: $37.00
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(December 2026)
ISBN: 9782406211686
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Price: $108.00
Giorgio Agamben and Pascal Quignard argue that human beings are not born “already speaking.” In order to become subjects in language, children need to move beyond the pre-lingual stage of the infans; yet, between the ages of three and twelve, a longing arises for a lost linguistic paradise, which Jean-Bertrand Pontalis has termed the “melancholy of language.”
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