Gift of Language

Memory and Promise in Adorno, Benjamin.Heidegger and Rosenzweig

By: Alexander Garcia Duttmann

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This text focuses on the relevance of the proper name in the conceptions of language and history that inform the thought of Adorno, Benjamin, Heidegger and Rosenzweig. Their interest in the proper name is because it does not simply operate as a conventional linguistic sign. A specific experience of the Jewish religious tradition (Adorno, Benjamin, Rosenzweig) and a vision of poetry resulting from the reading of Hoelderlin (Heidegger) lead to the idea of an absolute singularity, it is a singularity that resists all conceptual identificaiton and the proper name expresses this singularity in language. In this analysis, history is conceived as a movement that both betrays and tends towards the absolute singularity that manifests itself in the unsayable, i.e. in the name of God, or in poetical language. questions of gesture, translation and melancholia and the moment of apparition in the work of art are comprehensible within Dr Duttmann's discussion, which should be of interest to students of language, philosophy and theology.

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Notes on the English translation
Translator's Note
Constellations	p. 1
On the Path towards Sacred Names: Heidegger and Rosenzweig	p. 5
The immediate: frontier, limit and definition	p. 10
The double eternity: Christianity and Judaism	p. 16
Silence and gesture	p. 23
That which watches and concerns us	p. 26
Of the path-like nature of thought	p. 28
The whirl: Wege and Winke	p. 30
Translating the thing	p. 35
Over-naming and melancholy	p. 49
Apparitions
The unreadable name	p. 73
The gift of language	p. 74
The theologico-political	p. 80
Yet to come	p. 82
Apparition - of art	p. 85
The chain of the will	p. 89
Catastrophic quotation - quoted catastrophe	p. 90
'Auschwitz', the name of God: obligations	p. 94
Exclusion	p. 97
Thinking against thought	p. 104
Als ob	p. 108
The name and Being	p. 110
Notes	p. 112
Bibliography	p. 133
Index	p. 141
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