Beyond the Babylonian Trauma : : Theories of Language and Modern Culture in the German-Jewish Context / / Gerald Hartung.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Hartung, Gerald,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: New Studies in the History and Historiography of Philosophy , 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 201 p.)

Hartung works out both the linguistic and philosophy of language setting as well as socio-political and cultural implications of the radical critique of language developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by philosophers as diverse as Steinthal, Cohen, Simmel or Cassirer. He argues that the theories pleaded for a plurality of linguistic and cultural forms as well as for a new logic beyond the traditional nature/culture partition.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 0. Introduction – The Event of Language -- 1. Of Language as an ‘Event’ – Heymann Steinthal -- 2. The Origin of Language from ‘Almost Nothing’ – Lazarus Geiger -- 3. The ‘Spirit of Language’ – Moritz Lazarus -- 4. ‘The Peace of Humour’ – Hermann Cohen -- 5. On Tact as Form of Sociability -- 6. At the Limits of the ‘Critique of Language’ – Fritz Mauthner -- 7. From the Critique of Language to a ‘Critique of Culture’ – Ernst Cassirer -- 8. Conclusion – Language, Culture and Individuality -- Bibliography -- Index