A cloud of words : a reflection on (dis)appearing words of Benjamin and Wittgenstein
- At the forefront of those who tenaciously pondered this issue are, I would claim, Walter Benjamin and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Benjamin and Wittgenstein both are philosophers of language who tried to establish in unique ways the doctrine of resemblance respectively: "Lehre vom Ähnlichen" and "[Lehre der] Familienähnlichkeit." What they see and find in language are not communication and mutual understanding but instead one of the weirdest phenomena in/of the world, viz., resemblance (likeness) in/of language. This phenomenon, I would insist, indicates the correlation of appearing and disappearing, of differentiating and integrating, and of dividing and imparting of language as such. For Benjamin and Wittgenstein, to sum up, language is a paradigmatic paradoxical site of (dis)appearance, differentiating integrity, and divisive imparting. For this reason, it is worthwhile to pin down where their thoughts on language converge and where they diverge.
Author: | Hyowon Cho |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-443311 |
ISBN: | 978-3-7705-5782-0 |
Parent Title (German): | Benjamin-Studien |
Publisher: | Wilhelm Fink |
Place of publication: | Paderborn |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2017/06/22 |
Year of first Publication: | 2014 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2017/06/22 |
GND Keyword: | Benjamin, Walter; Wittgenstein, Ludwig; Philosophische Untersuchungen; Sprachphilosophie |
Volume: | 3 |
Page Number: | 22 |
First Page: | 233 |
Last Page: | 250 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 416584489 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin | |
BDSL-Klassifikation: | 01.00.00 Allgemeine deutsche Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft / BDSL-Klassifikation: 01.00.00 Allgemeine deutsche Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > 01.08.00 Zu einzelnen Germanisten, Literaturtheoretikern und Essayisten |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |