Experience and Infinite Task : Knowledge, Language and Messianism in the Philosophy of Walter Benjamin

Language: English

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017

1786600412 / 9781786600417

Series: Book 4 of 5 - Founding Critical Theory

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book examines the philosophical thought of the young Walter Benjamin and its development in his later work. Starting from his critique of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Hermann Cohen, the author traces the relationships among Benjamin’s theories — developed in tandem with his friend Gershom Scholem — of knowledge, language, ethics, politics, the philosophy of history and aesthetics, all linked to the Judaic theme of messianism and language as a realm of redemption. She delineates a horizon in which the concept of experience as structure, philosophical system and 'infinite task' (On the Program of the Coming Philosophy, 1917/18) evolves into a concept of the origin as monad (The Origin of German Tragic Drama, 1925), merging finally into the historical concept as monad and dialectical image (On the Concept of History, 1940). Tagliacozzo asserts that the concept of experience as structure and symbolic system, derived from his critical interpretation of Kant and Neo-Kantianism, develops into a conception of thought founded on a theological language of revelation. …

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Title
Experience and Infinite Task : Knowledge, Language and Messianism in the Philosophy of Walter Benjamin
Author
Tamara Tagliacozzo
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication year
2017
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Buch
Language
English
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1786600412
ISBN 13
9781786600417
Item weight
486 grams
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235x157x17 mm
Series
Book 4 of 5: Founding Critical Theory

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