Utopia of understanding : between Babel and Auschwitz /

Di Cesare, Donatella.

Utopia of understanding : between Babel and Auschwitz / Donatella Ester Di Cesare ; translated by Niall Keane. - Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2012. - 1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages) - SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy . - SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy. .

Translated from the Italian.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Utopia of Understanding: Between Babel and Auschwitz -- Utopia of Understanding: Between Babel and Auschwitz -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One: Being and language in Philosophical Hermeneutics -- 1. Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Linguistic Turn -- 2. Which "Turn"? -- 3. From Heidegger to Gadamer: Language as Dwelling, Refuge, Shelter, Exile -- 4. "The History of a Comma" -- 5. Gadamer's Self-Interpretation -- 6. Understanding as Middle Term and Mediation -- 7. Language and Linguisticality -- 8. Searching for the "Right" Word 9. "Being" Twice: The Speculative Passage from Being to Being-Language -- 10. The Universal "There" of the Word -- 11. Self-Overcoming: The Movement of Hermeneutics -- 12. The Understanding of Being: Hermeneutics Facing Ontology -- 13. The A-Metaphysical Dimension of Philosophical Hermeneutics -- 14. A Philosophy of Infinite Finitude -- Chapter Two: The Hermeneutic Understanding of Language -- 1. Heidegger and the Derivativeness of Assertion -- 2. Aristotle's Lesson -- 3. Hermeneutics Between Semantic Lógos and Apophantic Lógos -- 4. The Logic of Linguistic Praxis 5. As if "assertions fall from the sky . . ." The Analytic Artifice -- 6. Assertion , Method, and the Power of Technology -- 7. The Tribunal of Assertions -- 8. Hermeneía: From the Said to the Unsaid -- 9. Speculum: The Speculative Movement of Language -- 10. Beyond Hegel: The Dialectic of Finite and Infinite -- 11. The Truth of the Word -- 12. The Hermeneutic Listening to Language -- Chapter Three: Translation and Redemption -- 1. ". . . one shall no longer understand the lip of the other." Babel -- 2. Languages in the Diaspora -- 3. "Love without Demands": Translation in the Age of Romanticism 4. From the Original to the Originary: On Heidegger -- 5. Giving Voice to the Foreign Voice: The Translation of the Torah -- 6. The Dialogue of Languages: On Benjamin -- 7. "Pure Language" and Messianic Silence -- Chapter Four: Exiled in Language -- 1. "Exile" in the Jewish Tradition -- 2. "How Much Home Does One Man Need?" -- 3. Exile from the Land, Exile from the Language -- 4. On the Mother Tongue -- 5. In the Firmament of Rosenzweig:The Holy Language and the Language of the Guest -- 6. If German is the Language of the Origin -- 7. "What Remains? The Mother Tongue Remains": On Hannah Arendt 8. My Language Which is of the Other: Derrida and Monolingualism -- 9. Language Forbids Ownership -- 10. The Exile of Language -- Chapter Five: The Dialogue of Poetry -- 1. Paul Celan as a Witness to Hermeneutic Dialogue -- 2. The Everyday Word and the Poetic Word -- 3. Poetizing and Interpreting -- 4. "Your irrefutable witness" -- 5. Your I and My Thou: The Universality of Poetry -- 6. The Flow of Dialogue and the Crystal of Poetry -- 7. The "Soul's Refrain" -- Chapter Six: Understanding: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction -- 1. Paris 1981: An "Improbable Debate "

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Hermeneutics.
Language and languages--Philosophy.
Herméneutique.
Langage et langues--Philosophie.
hermeneutics.
PHILOSOPHY--Hermeneutics.
Hermeneutics.
Language and languages--Philosophy.


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