Autor: Kristina Mendicino

The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book begins by retracing the ways in which t …

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Walter Benjamin claimed that the notion of novelty took on unprecedented importance with the growth of high capitalism in the nineteenth century. In this book, Kristina Mendicino analyzes a selection …

Regarding philosophical importance, Edmund Husserl is arguably ‘the’ German export of the early twentieth century. In the wake of the linguistic turn(s) of the humanities, however, his claim to retur …

At least since Aristotle’s Peri hermeneias, there has been talk of the pathos of language, of language as ‘symbols of the affections in the soul.’ The way these affections are registered, however, su …

Paul Celan’s works dwell on the threshold between the extremes of poetic expression and philosophical reflection. The divergent literary and critical idioms that have marked Celan’s writing—and that …

Regarding philosophical importance, Edmund Husserl is arguably "the" German export of the early twentieth century. In the wake of the linguistic turn(s) of the humanities, however, his clai …

The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book begins by retracing the ways in which t …