The Fall of Language : : Benjamin and Wittgenstein on Meaning / / Alexander Stern.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
• VerfasserIn: Stern, Alexander,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Part I: Benjamin's Philosophy of Language --; 1. The Metaphysics of Meaning --; 2. Language Out of Eden --; 3. The Theory Gets Dressed Up --; Part II: The History of Language as Such --; 4. The Thought of Language --; 5. What Art Means --; 6. The Linguistic U-Turn --; 7. Private Language and Other Nonsense --; Part III: Benjamin and Wittgenstein --; 8. The Word and the Deed --; 9. The Character of Language --; Bibliography --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674240629; 9783110610765; 9783110664232; 9783110610550; 9783110606423; 9783110652031
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674240629
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alexander Stern.

Known for his essays on culture, aesthetics, and literature, Walter Benjamin also wrote on the philosophy of language. For Alexander Stern, his famously obscure-and, for some, hopelessly mystical-early work contains important insights, anticipating and in some respects surpassing Wittgenstein's later thinking on the philosophy of language.