Über Sprache überhaupt und über die Sprache des Menschen

by Walter Benjamin

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19 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 3, 2012

About the author

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, Jewish mysticism, and neo-Kantianism, Benjamin made influential contributions to aesthetic theory, literary criticism, and historical materialism. He was associated with the Frankfurt School and also maintained formative friendships with thinkers such as playwright Bertolt Brecht and Kabbalah scholar Gershom Scholem. He was related to German political theorist and philosopher Hannah Arendt through her first marriage to Benjamin's cousin Günther Anders, though the friendship between Arendt and Benjamin outlasted her marriage to Anders. Both Arendt and Anders were students of Martin Heidegger, whom Benjamin considered a nemesis.
Among Benjamin's best known works are the essays "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935) and "Theses on the Philosophy of History" (1940). His major work as a literary critic included essays on Charles Baudelaire, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Franz Kafka, Karl Kraus, Nikolai Leskov, Marcel Proust, Robert Walser, Trauerspiel and translation theory. He also made major translations into German of the Tableaux Parisiens section of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal and parts of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu.
Of the hidden principle organizing Walter Benjamin's thought Scholem wrote unequivocally that "Benjamin was a philosopher", while his younger colleagues Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno contend that he was "not a philosopher". Scholem remarked "The peculiar aura of authority emanating from his work tended to incite contradiction". Benjamin himself considered his research to be theological, though he eschewed all recourse to traditionally metaphysical sources of transcendentally revealed authority.
In 1940, at the age of 48, Benjamin died by suicide at Portbou on the French Spanish border while attempting to escape the advance of the Third Reich. Though popular acclaim eluded him during his life, the decades following his death won his work posthumous renown.

Reviews

[Ali Jones Alkazemi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dieser kleiner Text ist ein exemplarisches Beispiel, um zu zeigen, wie man religiöse Themen (d. h. kabbalistische Gedanken) und die kritische Theorie mischen kann. Benjamins Gedanken über die Sprache sind hier ähnlich wie Hegels Begriff der Vernunft. Benjamin aber, wie das Nachwort uns sagt, erbte sein Sprachverstehen von dem Prophet Hamann. Er zitiert Hamann, wo beide Zitate eine ursprüngliche Sprache in der Natur selbst zeigen. Es ist gleich wie Hegel, als er sagt, dass die Natur selbst vernünftig ist und ein begrifflische Realität beinhaltet.

"'Sprache, die Mutter der Vernunft und Offenbarung, ihr A und Ω', sagt Hamann".

Und auch,

"Alles, was der Mensch am Anfange hörte, mit Augen sah und seine Hände betasteten, war lebendiges Wort; denn Gott war das Wort.", auch ein Hamann-Zitat.

[Laramzp · Rating 3 out of 5]

War mir so unangenehm in der U-Bahn zu lesen weil es lowkey ist wie wenn jemand die Bibel in der U-Bahn lesen würde

[Maximilian Reiner · Rating 2 out of 5]

Kaum was verstanden, vielleicht lags auch an mir :(

[ShifuSenpei · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sehr interessante Ansätze, allerdings sehr Gott bezogen.

[Itai Cohen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gefaellt mir :-)

[Sara Pereda]

Too religious and metaphysical….not my favorite