The Fall Of Language

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The Fall Of Language

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Author : Alexander Stern
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-08

The Fall Of Language written by Alexander Stern and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-08 with Philosophy categories.

In the most comprehensive account to date of Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of language, Alexander Stern explores the nature of meaning by putting Benjamin in dialogue with Wittgenstein. Known largely for his essays on culture, aesthetics, and literature, Walter Benjamin also wrote on the philosophy of language. This early work is famously obscure and considered hopelessly mystical by some. But for Alexander Stern, it contains important insights and anticipates—in some respects surpasses—the later thought of a central figure in the philosophy of language, Ludwig Wittgenstein. As described in The Fall of Language, Benjamin argues that “language as such” is not a means for communicating an extra-linguistic reality but an all-encompassing medium of expression in which everything shares. Borrowing from Johann Georg Hamann’s understanding of God’s creation as communication to humankind, Benjamin writes that all things express meanings, and that human language does not impose meaning on the objective world but translates meanings already extant in it. He describes the transformations that language as such undergoes while making its way into human language as the “fall of language.” This is a fall from “names”—language that responds mimetically to reality—to signs that designate reality arbitrarily. While Benjamin’s approach initially seems alien to Wittgenstein’s, both reject a designative understanding of language; both are preoccupied with Russell’s paradox; and both try to treat what Wittgenstein calls “the bewitchment of our understanding by means of language.” Putting Wittgenstein’s work in dialogue with Benjamin’s sheds light on its historical provenance and on the turn in Wittgenstein’s thought. Although the two philosophies diverge in crucial ways, in their comparison Stern finds paths for understanding what language is and what it does.

The Fall Of Language In The Age Of English

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Author : Minae Mizumura
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-06

The Fall Of Language In The Age Of English written by Minae Mizumura and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-06 with Literary Criticism categories.

Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge yet also embraces the different ways of understanding offered by multiple tongues. She warns against losing this precious diversity. Universal languages have always played a pivotal role in advancing human societies, Mizumura shows, but in the globalized world of the Internet, English is fast becoming the sole common language of humanity. The process is unstoppable, and striving for total language equality is delusional—and yet, particular kinds of knowledge can be gained only through writings in specific languages. Mizumura calls these writings "texts" and their ultimate form "literature." Only through literature and, more fundamentally, through the diverse languages that give birth to a variety of literatures, can we nurture and enrich humanity. Incorporating her own experiences as a writer and a lover of language and embedding a parallel history of Japanese, Mizumura offers an intimate look at the phenomena of individual and national expression.

The Rise And Fall Of Languages

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Author : Robert M. W. Dixon
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-12-11

The Rise And Fall Of Languages written by Robert M. W. Dixon and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-12-11 with Foreign Language Study categories.

A different approach to the theories on language evolution and change.

The Slow Fall Of Babel

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Author : Yuliya Minets
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-12-09

The Slow Fall Of Babel written by Yuliya Minets and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-09 with History categories.

Explores how early Christianity sought to define its relationship to speakers of foreign languages.

The Fall Of Language In The Age Of English

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Author : Minae Mizumura
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-06

The Fall Of Language In The Age Of English written by Minae Mizumura and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-06 with Literary Criticism categories.

Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, this best-selling book by one of JapanÕs most ambitious contemporary fiction writers lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of oneÕs own language in an age of English dominance. Born in Tokyo but also raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge, yet also appreciates the different ways of seeing offered by the work of multiple tongues. She warns against losing this precious diversity. Universal languages have always played a pivotal role in advancing human societies, Mizumura shows, but in the globalized world of the Internet, English is fast becoming the sole common language of the human race. The process is unstoppable, and striving for total language equality is delusionalÑexcept when a particular knowledge is at stake, gained through writings in a specific language. Mizumura calls these writings ÒtextsÓ and their ultimate form Òliterature.Ó Only through literature, and more fundamentally through the various languages that give birth to a variety of literatures, can we nurture and enrich humanity. Incorporating her own experiences as a writer and a lover of language, and embedding a parallel history of Japanese, Mizumura offers an intimate look at the phenomenona of individual and national expression.

The Fall Of Interpretation

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Author : James K. A. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Baker Books
Release Date : 2012-04-01

The Fall Of Interpretation written by James K. A. Smith and has been published by Baker Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-01 with Religion categories.

In this provocative book James K. A. Smith, one of the most engaging Christian scholars of our day, offers an innovative approach to hermeneutics. The second edition of Smith's well-received debut book provides updated interaction with contemporary hermeneutical discussions and responds to criticisms.

The Fall Of Man And The Foundations Of Science

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Author : Peter Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-12-20

The Fall Of Man And The Foundations Of Science written by Peter Harrison and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-20 with History categories.

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The Fall Of Language

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Author : Alexander Stern
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019

The Fall Of Language written by Alexander Stern and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES categories.

The Fall Of The Iron Curtain And The Culture Of Europe

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Author : Peter I. Barta
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-12

The Fall Of The Iron Curtain And The Culture Of Europe written by Peter I. Barta and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-12 with Social Science categories.

The end of communism in Europe has tended to be discussed mainly in the context of political science and history. This book, in contrast, assesses the cultural consequences for Europe of the disappearance of the Soviet bloc. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book examines the new narratives about national, individual and European identities that have emerged in literature, theatre and other cultural media, investigates the impact of the re-unification of the continent on the mental landscape of Western Europe as well as Eastern Europe and Russia, and explores the new borders in the form of divisive nationalism that have reappeared since the disappearance of the Iron Curtain.