The Fall of Language: Benjamin and Wittgenstein on Meaning

✍ Scribed by Alexander Stern

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 400
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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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