Speaking and understanding can both be thought of as forms of translation, and in this way every speaker is an exile in language--even in one's mother tongue. Drawing from the philosophical hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer, the testimonies of the German Jews and their relation with the German language, Jacques Derrida's confrontation with Hannah Arendt, and the poetry of Paul Celan, Donatella Ester Di Cesare proclaims Auschwitz the Babel of the twentieth century. She argues that the globalized world is one in which there no longer remains any intimate place or stable...
Speaking and understanding can both be thought of as forms of translation, and in this way every speaker is an exile in language--even in one's mother...
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), one of the towering figures of contemporary Continental philosophy, is best known for Truth and Method, where he elaborated the concept of "philosophical hermeneutics," a programmatic way to get to what we do when we engage in interpretation. Donatella Di Cesare highlights the central place of Greek philosophy, particularly Plato, in Gadamer's work, brings out differences between his thought and that of Heidegger, and connects him with discussions and debates in pragmatism. This is a sensitive and thoroughly readable philosophical portrait of one of the 20th...
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), one of the towering figures of contemporary Continental philosophy, is best known for Truth and Method, where he el...
Philosophers have long struggled to reconcile Martin Heidegger's involvement in Nazism with his status as one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. The recent publication of his Black Notebooks has served to reignite fierce debate on the subject.
Philosophers have long struggled to reconcile Martin Heidegger's involvement in Nazism with his status as one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th cen...
Philosophers have long struggled to reconcile Martin Heidegger's involvement in Nazism with his status as one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. The recent publication of his Black Notebooks has served to reignite fierce debate on the subject.
Philosophers have long struggled to reconcile Martin Heidegger's involvement in Nazism with his status as one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th cen...
Torture is not as universally condemned as it once was. After 9/11, its apologists could use the 'war on terror' to justify a practice that has in fact never fallen completely out of use, in democracies no less than under dictatorships.
Torture is not as universally condemned as it once was. After 9/11, its apologists could use the 'war on terror' to justify a practice that has in fac...
Torture is not as universally condemned as it once was. After 9/11, its apologists could use the 'war on terror' to justify a practice that has in fact never fallen completely out of use, in democracies no less than under dictatorships.
Torture is not as universally condemned as it once was. After 9/11, its apologists could use the 'war on terror' to justify a practice that has in fac...
