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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Alexander SternPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674980914ISBN 10: 0674980913 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 08 April 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsA comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the intricacies of Walter Benjamin's philosophy of language. * Choice * This book provides an unusually comprehensive and judicious account of Benjamin's theory of language, and in particular it corrects longstanding misreadings of the influential 1916 essay on language. -- Howard Eiland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology I don't know any book that gives such a clear account of the tradition of thinking about language that takes off from Hamann-the idea that we are already within language-and then not only shows its relevance for Benjamin's whole outlook, but also the way in which this approach remains on the outside of the main analytic tradition, but is knocking to get in again, through Wittgenstein. The Fall of Language sheds floods of light on the whole scene. -- Charles Taylor, McGill University This book provides an unusually comprehensive and judicious account of Benjamin's theory of language, and in particular it corrects longstanding misreadings of the influential 1916 essay on language.--Howard Eiland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology I don't know any book that gives such a clear account of the tradition of thinking about language that takes off from Hamann--the idea that we are already within language--and then not only shows its relevance for Benjamin's whole outlook, but also the way in which this approach remains on the outside of the main analytic tradition, but is knocking to get in again, through Wittgenstein. The Fall of Language sheds floods of light on the whole scene.--Charles Taylor, McGill University This book provides an unusually comprehensive and judicious account of Benjamin's theory of language, and in particular it corrects longstanding misreadings of the influential 1916 essay on language.--Howard Eiland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology A comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the intricacies of Walter Benjamin's philosophy of language.--Choice I don't know any book that gives such a clear account of the tradition of thinking about language that takes off from Hamann--the idea that we are already within language--and then not only shows its relevance for Benjamin's whole outlook, but also the way in which this approach remains on the outside of the main analytic tradition, but is knocking to get in again, through Wittgenstein. The Fall of Language sheds floods of light on the whole scene.--Charles Taylor, McGill University Author InformationAlexander Stern received his doctorate from the University of Notre Dame and works on the philosophy of language, social and political philosophy, and aesthetics. His writing has appeared in the European Journal of Philosophy and Critical Horizons as well as in the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |