TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cho, Hyowon
T1  - A cloud of words : a reflection on (dis)appearing words of Benjamin and Wittgenstein
T2  - Benjamin-Studien
N2  - 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.
KW  - Benjamin, Walter
KW  - Wittgenstein, Ludwig
KW  - Philosophische Untersuchungen
KW  - Sprachphilosophie
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/44331
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-443311
SN  - 978-3-7705-5782-0
VL  - 3
SP  - 233
EP  - 250
PB  - Wilhelm Fink
CY  - Paderborn
ER  -