The Fall of Language: Benjamin and Wittgenstein on Meaning

Author:   Alexander Stern
Publisher:   Harvard University Press
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Pages:   400
Publication Date:   08 April 2019
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Author:   Alexander Stern
Publisher:   Harvard University Press
Imprint:   Harvard University Press
ISBN:  

9780674980914


ISBN 10:   0674980913
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   08 April 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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A 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


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Alexander 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.

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