The Scene of the Voice

Thinking Language after Affect

Michael Eng

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English

State University of New York Press
01 March 2023

Philosophy of language; Philosophy; Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism; Philosophy: aesthetics; History of ideas

Series: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Brings the figure of the voice and the problem of mimesis in Heidegger and post-Heideggerian continental thought to bear on the dismissal of language by the affective and aesthetic turns of contemporary critical theory.

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.

By: Michael Eng
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9781438492520
ISBN 10: 1438492529
Series: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Pages: 314
Publication Date: 01 March 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Reviews for The Scene of the Voice: Thinking Language after Affect

"""Michael Eng explores with a striking breadth of coverage Heidegger's approach to language. Allowing the positions of Lacoue-Labarthe, Nancy, Blanchot, and Deleuze to unfold rather than pushing to decide disputes, he deftly demonstrates that his questions of 'voice' and 'scene' are fundamental to post-Heideggerian thought."" — Christopher Fynsk, author of Last Steps: Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writing"