Gift of Language
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2000
154 pages
978-0-567-37836-1 (ISBN)
Description
This text focuses on the relevance of the proper name in the conceptions of language and history that inform the thought of Adorno, Benjamin, Heidegger and Rosenzweig. Their interest in the proper name is because it does not simply operate as a conventional linguistic sign. A specific experience of the Jewish religious tradition (Adorno, Benjamin, Rosenzweig) and a vision of poetry resulting from the reading of Hoelderlin (Heidegger) lead to the idea of an absolute singularity, it is a singularity that resists all conceptual identificaiton and the proper name expresses this singularity in language. In this analysis, history is conceived as a movement that both betrays and tends towards the absolute singularity that manifests itself in the unsayable, i.e. in the name of God, or in poetical language. questions of gesture, translation and melancholia and the moment of apparition in the work of art are comprehensible within Dr Duttmann's discussion, which should be of interest to students of language, philosophy and theology.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-567-37836-1 (9780567378361)
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Additional editions
Alexander Garcia Duttmann
The Gift of Language
Memory and Promise in Adorno, Benjamin, Heidegger and Rosenzweig
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09/2000
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
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Persons
Alexander Garcia Duttmann is Professor of Philosophy and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths University of London, UK, and author of The Gift of Language and Memory of Thought, published in the Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers series.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Note on the English translation
- Translator's Note
- Constellations
- I: On the Path towards Sacred Names Heidegger and Rosenzweig
- The immediate: frontier, limit and definition
- The double eternity: Christianity and Judaism
- Silence and gesture
- That which watches and concerns us
- Of the path-like nature of thought
- The whirl: Wege and Winke
- II: Translating the thing
- III: Over-naming and melancholy
- IV: Apparitions
- The unreadable name
- The gift of language
- The theologico-political
- Yet to come
- Apparition - of art
- The chain of the will
- Catastrophic quotation - quoted catastrophe
- 'Auschwitz', the name of God: obligations
- Exclusion
- Thinking against thought
- Als ob
- The name and Being
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
