Format:
1 Online-Ressource (386 Seiten)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780674240636
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9780674240643
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9780674240629
Content:
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
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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De Gruyter - Pilot project. eBook available to selected libraries only
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674980914
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Stern, Alexander, 1986 - The fall of language Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019 ISBN 9780674980914
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig 1889-1951
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Sprachphilosophie
DOI:
10.4159/9780674240629
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