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Utopia of Understanding
Between Babel and Auschwitz
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Speaking and understanding can both be thought of as forms of translation, and in this way every speaker is an exile in languageāeven 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 dwelling. Understanding becomes a kind of shibboleth that grounds nothing, but opens messianically to a utopia yet to come.
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Philosophy History & TheoryTable of contents
- Title Page
- Preface
- Chapter One: Being and Language in Philosophical Hermeneutics
- Chapter Two: The Hermeneutic Understanding of Language
- Chapter Three: Translation And Redemption
- Chapter Four: Exiled in Language
- Chapter Five: The Dialogue of Poetry
- Chapter Six: Understanding: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction
- Chapter Seven: Utopia of Understanding