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The Fall of Language : Benjamin and Wittgenstein on Meaning / Alexander Stern.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674980914
  • 9780674240629
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401 23
LOC classification:
  • P107 .S737 2019
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Benjamin's Philosophy of Language -- 1. The Metaphysics of Meaning -- 2. Language Out of Eden -- 3. The Theory Gets Dressed Up -- Part II: The History of Language as Such -- 4. The Thought of Language -- 5. What Art Means -- 6. The Linguistic U-Turn -- 7. Private Language and Other Nonsense -- Part III: Benjamin and Wittgenstein -- 8. The Word and the Deed -- 9. The Character of Language -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Known for his essays on culture, aesthetics, and literature, Walter Benjamin also wrote on the philosophy of language. For Alexander Stern, his famously obscure-and, for some, hopelessly mystical-early work contains important insights, anticipating and in some respects surpassing Wittgenstein's later thinking on the philosophy of language.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Benjamin's Philosophy of Language -- 1. The Metaphysics of Meaning -- 2. Language Out of Eden -- 3. The Theory Gets Dressed Up -- Part II: The History of Language as Such -- 4. The Thought of Language -- 5. What Art Means -- 6. The Linguistic U-Turn -- 7. Private Language and Other Nonsense -- Part III: Benjamin and Wittgenstein -- 8. The Word and the Deed -- 9. The Character of Language -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Known for his essays on culture, aesthetics, and literature, Walter Benjamin also wrote on the philosophy of language. For Alexander Stern, his famously obscure-and, for some, hopelessly mystical-early work contains important insights, anticipating and in some respects surpassing Wittgenstein's later thinking on the philosophy of language.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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