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edocfu_9959090001602883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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Abbreviations --
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Introduction --
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Part I: Benjamin's Philosophy of Language --
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1. The Metaphysics of Meaning --
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2. Language Out of Eden --
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3. The Theory Gets Dressed Up --
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Part II: The History of Language as Such --
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4. The Thought of Language --
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5. What Art Means --
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6. The Linguistic U-Turn --
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7. Private Language and Other Nonsense --
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Part III: Benjamin and Wittgenstein --
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8. The Word and the Deed --
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9. The Character of Language --
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Bibliography --
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Acknowledgments --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4159/9780674240629
URL:
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674240629