Arresting language : from Leibniz to Benjamin / Peter Fenves.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fenves, Peter D. (Peter David), 1960-

Series:

Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)

Meridian

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 379 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

Concentrating on both widely known and seldom-read texts from a variety of philosophers, writers, and critics- from Leibniz and Mendelssohn, through Kleist and Hebel, to Benjamin and Irigaray- the book analyzes the genesis and structure of interruption, a topic of growing interest to contemporary literary studies, continental philosophy, legal studies, and theological reflection.

Contents:

Introduction: "From an Awkward Perspective" 1

1 Antonomasia: The Fate of the Name in Leibniz 13

2 Language on a Holy Day: The Temporality of Communication in Mendelssohn 80

3 "The Scale of Enthusiasm": Kant, Schelling, and Holderlin 98

4 On a Seeming Right to Semblance: Schiller, Hebel, and Kleist 129

5 Anecdote and Authority: Toward Kleist's Last Language 152

6 The Paradisal Epoche: On Benjamin's First Philosophy 174

7 Tragedy and Prophecy in Benjamin's Origin of the German Mourning Play 227

8 "Subtracted from the Order of Number": Toward a Politics of Pure Means in Benjamin and Irigaray 249.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-369) and index.

ISBN:

0804739595

0804739609

OCLC:

47140643