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Author Hartung, Gerald, author.

Title Beyond the Babylonian trauma : theories of language and modern culture in the German-Jewish context / Gerald Hartung ; translated by Aengus Daly.

Publication Info. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 201 pages).
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Series New studies in the history and historiography of philosophy ; volume 5
New studies in the history and historiography of philosophy ; v. 5.
Note Originally published as Sprach-Kritik : sprach- und kulturtheoretische Reflexionen im deutsch-jüdischen Kontext, Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2012.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-199) and index.
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.
Summary The series publishes monographs and essay collections devoted to the history of philosophy as well as studies in the theory of writing the history of philosophy. A special emphasis is placed on the contextualization of philosophical historiography into the areas of the history of science, culture, and the wider scope of intellectual history.
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Language In English.
Subject Philosophy, German.
Philosophy, German.
Jewish philosophy.
Jewish philosophy.
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Language and culture -- Philosophy.
Language and culture.
Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Daly, Aengus, translator.
Added Title Sprach-Kritik. English
Other Form: EPUB 9783110602715
Print version: Hartung, Gerald. Sprach-Kritik. English. Beyond the Babylonian trauma. Berlin : De Gruyter, [2018] 9783110601671 (DLC) 2018956640 (OCoLC)1064682864
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