Die Willkür der Zeichen
In his article “Die Willkür der Zeichen” (originally published in: Perspektiven kritischer Theorie. Festschrift für Hermann Schweppenhäuser, ed. Christoph Türcke [Lüneburg, 1988], pp. 124-73) Iriving Wohlfarth retraces the role of the conventionalist theory of language within Benjamin's philoso...
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| Idioma: | Allemand |
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Anthropology + Materialism
2017
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | In his article “Die Willkür der Zeichen” (originally published in: Perspektiven kritischer Theorie. Festschrift für Hermann Schweppenhäuser, ed. Christoph Türcke [Lüneburg, 1988], pp. 124-73) Iriving Wohlfarth retraces the role of the conventionalist theory of language within Benjamin's philosophy of language. In this perspective, the central premise of all modern linguistics, namely what Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de Linguistique Generale terms the “arbitrary nature of the sign”, appears as a symptom of what Benjamin calls “the Fall of the spirit of language”, its reduction to a mere means of signification and communication. |
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