Arresting language : from Leibniz to Benjamin
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.
Print Book, English, 2001
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2001
Poetry
xiii, 379 pages ; 24 cm.
9780804739597, 9780804739603, 0804739595, 0804739609
47140643
Introduction: "From an Awkward Perspective"
1. Antonomasia: The Fate of the Name in Leibniz
2. Language on a Holy Day: The Temporality of Communication in Mendelssohn
3. "The Scale of Enthusiasm": Kant, Schelling, and Holderlin
4. On a Seeming Right to Semblance: Schiller, Hebel, and Kleist
5. Anecdote and Authority: Toward Kleist's Last Language
6. The Paradisal Epoche: On Benjamin's First Philosophy
7. Tragedy and Prophecy in Benjamin's Origin of the German Mourning Play
8. "Subtracted from the Order of Number": Toward a Politics of Pure Means in Benjamin and Irigaray