Arresting Language

From Leibniz to Benjamin

By: Peter Fenves

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Speech act theory has taught us how to do things with words. Arresting Language turns its attention in the opposite direction toward the surprising things that language can undo and leave undone. In the eight essays of this volume, arresting language is seen as language at rest, words no longer in service to the project of establishing conventions or instituting legal regimes. Concentrating on both widely known and seldom-read texts from a variety of philosophers, writers, and critics from Leibniz and Mendelssohn, through Kleist and Hebel, to Benjamin and Irigaray the book analyzes the genesis and structure of interruption, a topic of growing interest to contemporary literary studies, continental philosophy, legal studies, and theological reflection. Beginning with an exposition of Holderlin s rigorous account of interruption in terms of the pure word, in which the event of representation alone appears, Arresting Language identifies critical moments in philosophical and literary texts during which language itself without any identifiable speaker arrests otherwise continuous processes and procedures, including the process of representation and the procedures for its legitimization. The book then investigates a series of pure words: the fatal verdict (arr t) of divine wisdom in Leibniz, the performance of Jewish ceremonial practices in Mendelssohn, the issuing of unauthorized arrest warrants in Kleist, fraudulent acts of storytelling in Hebel, the eruption of tragic silence and the mass strike in Benjamin, and the recurrence of angelic intervention in Irigaray.

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Non-Fiction Language & Linguistics Linguistics Philosophy of Language Literature, Poetry & Plays Poetry Philosophy History of Western Philosophy Western Philosophy from 1600 to 1900 Philosophy & Aesthetics History & Criticism of Literature

Note on Translations and Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction: "From an Awkward Perspective"	p. 1
Antonomasia: The Fate of the Name in Leibniz	p. 13
Language on a Holy Day: The Temporality of Communication in Mendelssohn	p. 80
"The Scale of Enthusiasm": Kant, Schelling, and Holderlin	p. 98
On a Seeming Right to Semblance: Schiller, Hebel, and Kleist	p. 129
Anecdote and Authority: Toward Kleist's Last Language	p. 152
The Paradisal Epoche: On Benjamin's First Philosophy	p. 174
Tragedy and Prophecy in Benjamin's Origin of the German Mourning Play	p. 227
"Subtracted from the Order of Number": Toward a Politics of Pure Means in Benjamin and Irigaray	p. 249
Notes	p. 271
Bibliography	p. 345
Sources	p. 370
Index	p. 371
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