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Arresting Language - From Leibniz to Benjamin (Hardcover)
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Arresting Language - From Leibniz to Benjamin (Hardcover)
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
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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 ("arret") 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.
At the center of this volume is a detailed explication of
Benjamin's effort to transform Husserl's program for a
phenomenological "epoche" into a paradoxically nonprogrammatic,
paradisal "epoche," by means of which the structure of paradise can
be exactly outlined and the Messianic moment--as the ultimate event
of arresting language--can at last appear to enter into its own.
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