The Disarticulate: Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity

Contents

>> v Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Disarticulate and Dysarticulate 1 1. The Bearing Across of Language: Care, Catachresis, and Political Failure 15 2. Linguistic Impairment and the Default of Modernism: Totality and Otherness: Dys-/Disarticulate Modernity 53 3. Post-Modern Wild Children, Falling Towers, and the Counter-Linguistic Turn 105 4. Dys-/Disarticulation and Disability 141 5. Alterity Is Relative: Impairment, Narrative, and Care in an Age of Neuroscience 183 Epilogue: “Language in Dissolution” and “A World without Words” 231 Notes 239 Works Cited 275 Index 295 About the Author 301 This page intentionally left blank ...