Utopia of Understanding

Between Babel and Auschwitz

von Donatella Ester Di Cesare

259 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A hermeneutics of language after Auschwitz.Speaking and understanding can both be thought of as forms of translation, and in this way every speaker is an exile in language-even in one's mother tongue. Drawing from the philosophical hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer, the testimonies of the German Jews and their relation with the German language, Jacques Derrida's confrontation with Hannah Arendt, and the poetry of Paul Celan, Donatella Ester Di Cesare proclaims Auschwitz the Babel of the twentieth century. She argues that the globalized world is one in which there no longer remains any intimate place or stable dwelling. Understanding becomes a kind of shibboleth that grounds nothing, but opens messianically to a utopia yet to come.

• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Philosophie Philosophische Traditionen und Denkschulen Nach 1800 Strukturalismus und Post-Strukturalismus
• ISBN: 9781438442525
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.01.2013
• Größe: 228 x 151 mm
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Übersetzung: Niall Keane