What can you say after you say that the world - or at least human life on it - looks like it's nearing its end? How about starting with wonder at the possibility that dialogue and subjectivity, the bases of human language, are possible now? In "Time and Human Language Now", two lifelong friends share, in the form of a long-distance e-mail correspondence, a conversation about the relation between cosmos and consciousness, and about the possibility of being responsibly open toward the future without either despair or unreasoning hope. The urgency that underlies this dialogue is the conviction that there can only be reason for hope if the members of homo sapiens can learn - soon - how vital and astonishing is the phenomenon of shared human presence through language.

About the Author
Jonathan Boyardin is the Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is coauthor of Powers of Diaspora and the author of Thinking in Jewish, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press. Martin Land is a senior lecturer in computer science at Hadassah College in Jerusalem and president of the International Association for Relativistic Dynamics.


Book Information
ISBN 9780979405730
Author Jonathan Boyarin
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
Publisher Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
Weight(grams) 113g
Dimensions(mm) 18mm * 12mm * 1mm