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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
Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 201 pages)
Series New studies in the history and historiography of philosophy ; volume 5
New studies in the history and historiography of philosophy ; v. 5.
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
Notes 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
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)
Subject Philosophy, German.
Jewish philosophy.
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Language and culture -- Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Language and languages -- Philosophy
Jewish philosophy
Philosophy, German
Form Electronic book
Author Daly, Aengus, translator.
ISBN 9783110603842
3110603845
9783110602715
3110602717
Other Titles Sprach-Kritik. English