{"product_id":"primacies-by-michael-fishbane-9780226842110","title":"Primacies","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA powerful exploration of how literature expresses and transforms our earliest preverbal experiences.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrimacies\u003c\/em\u003e begins with the assertion that our earliest preverbal experiences are accompanied by a primary language—a universal expression of tears, cries, and laughter offered long before we learn our distinctive, ordinary languages. For Michael Fishbane, these \"primacies\" release the raw feelings of our existential condition and catalyse our most powerful literary expressions of sorrow, joy, and fulfilment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Fishbane explores how ancient, medieval, and modern literature and poetry express and transform these primal sensations. Building on his theological project begun in \u003cem\u003eSacred Attunement\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFragile Finitude\u003c\/em\u003e, Fishbane offers here a radically new lived hermeneutics that seeks to do nothing less than redefine the relationship between experience and language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46792504410348,"sku":"9780226842110","price":71.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20649383482268.jpg?v=1757006436","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/primacies-by-michael-fishbane-9780226842110","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}