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Absentees: on variously missing persons

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In thirteen interlocking chapters, Absentees explores the role of the missing in human communities, asking an urgent question: How does a person become a nonperson, whether by disappearance, disenfranchisement, or civil, social, or biological death? Only somebody can become a 'nobody,' but, as Daniel Heller-Roazen shows, the ways of being a nonperson are as diverse and complex as they are mysterious and unpredictable. Heller-Roazen treats the variously missing persons of the subtitle in three parts: Vanishings, Lessenings, and Survivals. In each section and with multiple transhistorical and transcultural examples, he challenges the categories that define nonpersons in philosophy, ethics, law, and anthropology.

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The inner touch : archaeology of a sensation

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This book reconstructs and reconsiders the history of the sensation. In twenty-five concise chapters that move freely among ancient, medieval, and modern cultures, Daniel Heller-Roazen investigates a set of exemplary phenomena that have played central roles in philosophical, literary, psychological, and medical accounts of the nature of animal existence. Here sensation and self-sensation, sleeping and waking, aesthetics and anesthetics, perception and apperception, animal nature and human nature, consciousness and unconsciousness, all acquire a new meaning.

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Dark tongues : the art of rogues and riddlers

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Dark Tongues moves among hermetic artificial tongues, exploring phenomena as diverse as criminal jargons and divine speech, Saussure’s and Tristan Tzara’s work on anagrams, Jakobson’s theory of subliminal poetic patterning, and the secret writing systems of the Biblical copyists and Druids.