Beyond the Babylonian Trauma: Theories of Language and Modern Culture in the German-Jewish Context

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PUBLISHER: De Gruyter

FORMAT: Electronic book text

ISBN: 9783110602715

RRP: £92.40

PAGES: 238

PUBLICATION DATE:
September 1, 2018

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Beyond the Babylonian Trauma: Theories of Language and Modern Culture in the German-Jewish Context

Gerald Hartung

Hartung works out both the linguistic and philosophy of language setting as well as socio-political and cultural implications of the radical critique of language developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by philosophers as diverse as Steinthal, Cohen, Simmel or Cassirer. He argues that the theories pleaded for a plurality of linguistic and cultural forms as well as for a new logic beyond the traditional nature/culture partition.

Gerald Hartung

Gerald Hartung, University of Wuppertal.

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