Body Language - Corporeality, Subjectivity, and Language in Johann Georg Hamann (Hardcover, New edition)

Body Language: Corporeality, Subjectivity, and Language in Johann Georg Hamann addresses the centrality of sensual perception to the constitution of subjectivity and the resulting relationship between subjectivity and language in the work of Johann Georg Hamann. In positing the body as the entity that conditions a subject's encounter with the world, Hamann, it is argued, prefigures a notion of finite subjectivity that not only runs counter to the Enlightenment tradition but also reemerges in nineteenth- (Kierkegaard and Nietzsche) and twentieth-century (Benjamin) discourses on the tension between subjectivity and the abstraction of language. The paradox at the heart of this investigation is Hamann's radical circumscription of reason as expressed through language, which nevertheless attempts to recuperate the concept of universal meaning through faith. Language is wrested away from abstraction and, therefore, any universality, and becomes the expression of the finite, corporeal subjectivity, a state of limitation that is at once granted and resolved by a divine creator.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, 111
Release date:	October 2011
First published:	2012
Authors:	Julia Goesser Assaiante
Dimensions:	230 x 160 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	143
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-1596-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Philosophy of religion > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Philosophy of religion > General
LSN:	1-4331-1596-4
Barcode:	9781433115967

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