Author : Alexander Stern
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674240634
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Fall of Language by : Alexander Stern
Download or read book The Fall of Language written by Alexander Stern and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for his essays on culture, aesthetics, and literature, Walter Benjamin also wrote on the philosophy of language. For Alexander Stern, his famously obscure—and, for some, hopelessly mystical—early work contains important insights, anticipating and in some respects surpassing Wittgenstein’s later thinking on the philosophy of language.