memory and promise in Adorno, Benjamin, Heidegger, and Rosenzweig /
First Statement of Responsibility
Alexander García Düttmann ; translated by Arline Lyons.
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London :
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Athlone Press,
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2000.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (viii, 140 pages).
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Athlone contemporary European thinkers
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-140) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Cover; Contents; Note on the English translation; Translator''s Note; Constellations; I: On the Path towards Sacred Names Heidegger and Rosenzweig; The immediate: frontier, limit and definition; The double eternity: Christianity and Judaism; Silence and gesture; That which watches and concerns us; Of the path-like nature of thought; The whirl: Wege and Winke; II: Translating the thing; III: Over-naming and melancholy; IV: Apparitions; The unreadable name; The gift of language; The theologico-political; Yet to come; Apparition -- of art; The chain of the will.
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Catastrophic quotation -- quoted catastrophe''Auschwitz'', the name of God: obligations; Exclusion; Thinking against thought; Als ob; The name and Being; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This text focuses on the relevance of the proper name in the conceptions of language and history that inform the thought of Adorno, Benjamin, Heidegger and Rosenzweig. Their interest in the proper name is because it does not simply operate as a conventional linguistic sign. A specific experience of the Jewish religious tradition (Adorno, Benjamin, Rosenzweig) and a vision of poetry resulting from the reading of Hoelderlin (Heidegger) lead to the idea of an absolute singularity, it is a singularity that resists all conceptual identificaiton and the proper name expresses this singularity in lang.