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9780804727143

Language and Relation

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  • ISBN13:

    9780804727143

  • ISBN10:

    0804727147

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-12-01
  • Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

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Summary

The most recent version of the "linguistic turn," the revolution in language theory shaped by Saussure's structural linguistics and realized in a sweeping revision of investigations throughout the humanities and social sciences, has rushed past the most basic "fact": that there is language. What has been lost? Almost everything of what Heidegger tried to approach under the name of "ontology" until the word proved too laden by common misapprehension to be of use. Most immediately, this is everything of language that exceeds the order of signification, together with the subject's engagement with this "excess" that is the (non)ground of history and the material site of all relationality, beginning with that unthought that is widely termed "culture." Language and Relation returns to this site in close readings of meditations on language by Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Paul Celan, Walter Benjamin, and Maurice Blanchot. It seeks to move with these authors beyond the order of signification and toward the an-archic grounds of relation (of all relations between self and other, and of relation in general), exploring the possibility for a strong link between issues in modern philosophy of language and contemporary socio-political concerns.

Author Biography

Christopher Fynsk is Professor of Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Binghamton University.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Introductionp. 1
...that there is languagep. 13
Heidegger
Noise at the Thresholdp. 17
In the Name of Languagep. 39
Free Use of the Properp. 86
Celan
The Realities at Stake in a Poemp. 135
Irigaray
An Exquisite Crisisp. 161
Benjamin
Translation as a Concept of Relationp. 177
The Presentation of Allegoryp. 190
The Claim of Historyp. 211
Bianchot
Crossing the Threshold: On "Literature and the Right to Death"p. 227
On Death Sentence: The Exigency of Another Relationp. 245
The Lightning Fieldp. 273
Notesp. 277
Indexp. 313
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