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- Summary
- This book explores the nature of meaning, primarily through readings of the work of Walter Benjamin and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Alexander Stern offers a critical analysis of Benjamin's philosophy of language, finding in it a common root with Wittgenstein's thought on language, and traces the historical foundation of both accounts of meaning to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German philosophy. Benjamin's theory of language is notoriously dense and obscure. In elucidating it, Stern emphasizes Benjamin's attempt to reorient the Kantian project around language-the medium in which knowledge is expressed-and his concern with the logical understanding of language gaining credence in the work of Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege. The result is a radical model of the relationship between language, experience, and the world that sees "absolutely everything" as linguistic in a broadened sense and which sees the logical or designative capacities of language as grounded in an aesthetic foundation. Wittgenstein and Benjamin are read in the book as complementary to one another, sharing comparable critiques of empiricism and comparable accounts of concept use, linguistic understanding, and the relation between experience and language. Although this similarity breaks down over Wittgenstein's account of the "experience of meaning," which is subordinated to his account of meaning as use, Stern argues that Benjamin's theory of language can productively address some unresolved issues in Wittgenstein's understanding of meaning.--
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- eng
- Extent
- 386 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction
- Part I. Benjamin's philosophy of language. The metaphysics of meaning
- Language out of Eden
- The theory gets dressed up
- Part II. The history of language as such. The thought of language
- What art means
- The linguistic U-turn
- Private language and other nonsense
- Part III. Benjamin and Wittgenstein. The word and the deed
- The character of language
- Isbn
- 9780674980914
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- The fall of language : Benjamin and Wittgenstein on meaning
- Title
- The fall of language
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- Benjamin and Wittgenstein on meaning
- Statement of responsibility
- Alexander Stern
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book explores the nature of meaning, primarily through readings of the work of Walter Benjamin and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Alexander Stern offers a critical analysis of Benjamin's philosophy of language, finding in it a common root with Wittgenstein's thought on language, and traces the historical foundation of both accounts of meaning to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German philosophy. Benjamin's theory of language is notoriously dense and obscure. In elucidating it, Stern emphasizes Benjamin's attempt to reorient the Kantian project around language-the medium in which knowledge is expressed-and his concern with the logical understanding of language gaining credence in the work of Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege. The result is a radical model of the relationship between language, experience, and the world that sees "absolutely everything" as linguistic in a broadened sense and which sees the logical or designative capacities of language as grounded in an aesthetic foundation. Wittgenstein and Benjamin are read in the book as complementary to one another, sharing comparable critiques of empiricism and comparable accounts of concept use, linguistic understanding, and the relation between experience and language. Although this similarity breaks down over Wittgenstein's account of the "experience of meaning," which is subordinated to his account of meaning as use, Stern argues that Benjamin's theory of language can productively address some unresolved issues in Wittgenstein's understanding of meaning.--
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- Benjamin, Walter
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Language and languages
- Meaning (Philosophy)
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- The fall of language : Benjamin and Wittgenstein on meaning, Alexander Stern
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-377) and index
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- Introduction -- Part I. Benjamin's philosophy of language. The metaphysics of meaning -- Language out of Eden -- The theory gets dressed up -- Part II. The history of language as such. The thought of language -- What art means -- The linguistic U-turn -- Private language and other nonsense -- Part III. Benjamin and Wittgenstein. The word and the deed -- The character of language
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- 25 cm
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- 386 pages
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- 9780674980914
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- (OCoLC)1057240245
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- The fall of language : Benjamin and Wittgenstein on meaning, Alexander Stern
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-377) and index
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- Introduction -- Part I. Benjamin's philosophy of language. The metaphysics of meaning -- Language out of Eden -- The theory gets dressed up -- Part II. The history of language as such. The thought of language -- What art means -- The linguistic U-turn -- Private language and other nonsense -- Part III. Benjamin and Wittgenstein. The word and the deed -- The character of language
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- on1057240245
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 386 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674980914
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