For a recent piece in e-flux Notes, Mustafa Uzuner discusses Far Calls" On Omens, Slips & Epiphanies by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Click here to learn more about the book. Click here to read the full review. An excerpt appears below:
“For those familiar with Heller-Roazen’s body of work, Far Calls arrives as a natural and brilliant extension of a career-long intellectual project. His scholarship has consistently performed an archaeology of the forgotten, the untranslatable, and the liminal spaces of thought. Where his previous books have excavated the foundations of language (Echolalias), sensation (The Inner Touch), and harmony (The Fifth Hammer), Far Calls turns its attention to the moments when these systems break down or are momentarily suspended. The “interval” is a concept that resonates deeply with his earlier inquiries into what is lost, silenced, or misunderstood. By focusing on the overheard and the misspoken, Heller-Roazen continues his exploration of what lies at the periphery of consciousness, demonstrating once again that the most profound philosophical insights are often found not in the center of the canon, but in its margins, its glosses, and its accidents.”