Description: In this stylish and readable work, Jean-Yves Lacoste turns to phenomenology to develop a robust understanding of speech by way of speech acts and speech events, culminating in a consideration of liturgical speech.
Review Quotes: In Search of Speech lays the groundwork for the recovery of meaningful speech and experience amidst the babble of our times by a kind of open-eyed backtracking into surprising (or perhaps not-so-surprising) resources in the tradition both solemn and light: lectio divina, liturgy, poetry, fiction, humor... The result is a compelling, engrossing, mist-evaporating, page-turning intellectual achievement that speaks deeply to the humanity of those with ears to hear.
Chris Hackett, Saint Meinrad Seminary, USA