Inflected Language: Toward a Hermeneutics of Nearness: Heidegger, Levinas, Stevens, Celan (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) - Hardcover

Ziarek, Krzysztof

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791420590 ISBN 13: 9780791420591

Verlag: STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK PR, 1994

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In the aftermath of poststructuralist debates, Inflected Language proposes to rethink the ontological and ethical dimensions of language by rereading Heidegger's work, more specifically his reflection on poetry, and by engaging Levinas' ethics and contemporary poetics. Building on the readings of Heidegger, Levinas, Stevens, and Celan, the author contends that, against common misinterpretations, their approach to language forces us to reexamine the very basis of relations to alterity, whether that of the world, things, or people.

According to the new view of language offered in these works, thought's job is not, first and foremost, cognition in the sense of understanding, calculations, and definition, but in securing alterity against cognitive assimilation instead. In this context, Inflected Language reshapes the current philosophico-literary debate about language by showing how the apparently neutral differential play of signification is already invested with ethical and worldly signification. In order to avoid obliterating this elusive signification in theorizing language, Ziarek proposes following a new mode of reading—a post-Heideggerian "hermeneutics of nearness," which foregrounds the poetic element in language and its ways of figuring the other.

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Krzysztof Ziarek is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.

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• Verlag: STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0791420590
• ISBN 13: 9780791420591
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 239
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