{"product_id":"primacies-michael-fishbane-9780226842110","title":"Primacies: Experience, Expression, and the Jewish Imagination","description":"\u003cb\u003eA powerful exploration of how literature expresses and transforms our earliest preverbal experiences.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrimacies \u003c\/i\u003ebegins 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 catalyze our most powerful literary expressions of sorrow, joy, and fulfillment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 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 \u003ci\u003eSacred Attunement\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFragile Finitude\u003c\/i\u003e, Fishbane offers here a radically new lived hermeneutics that seeks to do nothing less than redefine the relationship between experience and language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Fishbane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226842118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226842110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Michael Fishbane","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46927735750911,"sku":"9780226842110","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5e7f53fd-e1bb-4479-8bfb-289ef5f87890.jpg?v=1749372802","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/primacies-michael-fishbane-9780226842110","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}