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FERBER, I., Language Pangs. On Pain and the Origin of Language. Oxford University Press, 2019. 208p. Hardback. If we attempt to know another person's pain, or understand it, to reach a common language that describes this, we will always encounter the problem that we cannot inhabit another person's body or think their thoughts. We know in the age of identity politics that this inability to inhabit another person's body is a political dilemma. But it is also the dilemma of all language. Language may describe, it may perform and communicate, but it always reaches the point where it cannot penetrate another person's world. This is where Ferber's book offers striking insights into the fundamental act of sympathy that marks language as attempting to cross an unbridgeable chasm, and in doing so, creating a strong bond of humanityFerber takes us through a clearly described, well argued discussion concerning pain,representation, expression, communication, and the interlocking of selves that is language. Monatshefte |a 19/07/2022 (Publisher's information). € 92.40 (New) (approx. delivery time: 4 weeks) ISBN: 9780190053864