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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822109703321

Autore

García Düttmann Alexander

Titolo

The gift of language : memory and promise in Adorno, Benjamin, Heidegger, and Rosenzweig / / Alexander García Düttmann ; translated by Arline Lyons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Athlone Press, , 2000

ISBN

1-4725-4657-1

1-283-19727-8

9786613197276

0-567-37836-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (154 p.)

Collana

Athlone contemporary European thinkers

Disciplina

121

121/.68

193

Soggetti

Philosophy

Language and languages - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages ).

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Note on the English translation; Translator's Note; Constellations; I On the Path towards Sacred Names; II Translating the thing; III Over-naming and melancholy; IV Apparitions; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"This text focuses on the relevance of the proper name in the conceptions of language and history that inform the thought of Adorno, Benjamin, Heidegger and Rosenzweig. Their interest in the proper name is because it does not simply operate as a conventional linguistic sign. A specific experience of the Jewish religious tradition (Adorno, Benjamin, Rosenzweig) and a vision of poetry resulting from the reading of Hoelderlin (Heidegger) lead to the idea of an absolute singularity, it is a singularity that resists all conceptual identificaiton and the proper name expresses this singularity in language. In this analysis, history is conceived as a movement that both betrays and tends towards the absolute singularity that manifests itself in the



unsayable, i.e. in the name of God, or in poetical language. questions of gesture, translation and melancholia and the moment of apparition in the work of art are comprehensible within Dr Duttmann's discussion, which should be of interest to students of language, philosophy and theology."--Bloomsbury Publishing.