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Jackson Lears's splendid review of Martin Jay's book Songs of Experience ["Keeping It Real," June 12] demonstrates the absurdity of Richard Rorty's dogma that there is no experience unmediated by language. This logocentric proposition--which Rorty shares with many French thinkers--is unsupported by evidence. Infant researchers and developmental psychologists demonstrated the existence of pre-verbal experience experimentally in the 1980s, while psychoanalysts like Erich Fromm and R.D. Laing wrote persuasively in the 1960s about emotional experience inexpressible in language.
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