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

• Autore: García Düttmann Alexander
• Pubblicazione: London, : Athlone Press, 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (154 p.)
• Disciplina: 121; 121/.68; 193
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy; Language and languages - Philosophy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 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 lang
• Titolo autorizzato: The gift of language
• ISBN: 1-4725-4657-1; 1-283-19727-8; 9786613197276; 0-567-37836-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461072503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Athlone contemporary European thinkers.