6. A Penchant For Disguise: The Death (and Rebirth) of the Author in Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
in The Ethics of Authorship
February 2011; published online March 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: philosophy of language. 11469 words.
This chapter situates Kierkegaard's commitment to death in companionship with a similar, if not identical, commitment on the part of Friedrich Nietzsche. Both conceptualize the relation between self...
1. A Question of Style
in The Ethics of Authorship
February 2011; published online March 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: philosophy of language. 9250 words.
This chapter sketches out some significant similarities between Hegel and Kierkegaard in terms of their ideas on language and the ethics of communication and authorship. The extent of this shared...
Absolute Mourning: It Is Jacques You Mourn For
in For Derrida
July 2009; published online March 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: philosophy of language. 9695 words.
This chapter explores the word or concept of mourning (deuil), especially the enigmatic phrase “absolute mourning [deuil absolu]” in Le toucher, Jean-Luc Nancy. This...
Adorno—Nature—Hegel
in Language Without Soil
November 2009; published online March 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: philosophy of language. 7885 words.
Theodor W. Adorno's innovative understanding of nature and the historical constitutes the core of the two contributions that follow. This chapter illuminates the understanding...
Adorno's Lesson Plans? The Ethics of (Re)education in “The Meaning of ‘Working through the Past’”
in Language Without Soil
November 2009; published online March 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: philosophy of language. 9728 words.
This chapter refutes the long-standing prejudice that Theodor W. Adorno offered no concrete suggestions capable of bridging theory and praxis by scrutinizing the philosopher's...
Aesthetic Theory and Nonpropositional Truth Content in Adorno
in Language Without Soil
November 2009; published online March 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: philosophy of language. 6841 words.
This chapter offers a close reading of a passage from the literary and philosophical work Minima Moralia that enacts Theodor W. Adorno's radical concept of nonpropositional...
After the End: Adorno
in Theatricality as Medium
December 2004; published online March 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: philosophy of language. 8545 words.
This chapter attempts to summarize an array of Adorno's works and analyses of various concepts as a critique of Kierkegaard's texts or as a comparison with a Hegelian line of ...
The Afterlife of Judaism: The Zohar, Benjamin, Miller
in Idylls of the Wanderer
July 2007; published online March 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: philosophy of language. 9221 words.
This chapter examines the Judaic scenario of the afterlife in the works of Walter Benjamin, J. Hillis Miller, and in the Zohar. It states that in The Zohar, the rabbinical...
Afterword
in The Opinion System
October 2008; published online March 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: philosophy of language. 2623 words.
This concluding chapter outlines directions for future research. It focuses on parallelism and structural analogy of public and private opinion. Also, it is seen that a wider complex of...
Afterword Gravity: Metaphysics of the Referent
in In the Place of Language
September 2009; published online March 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: philosophy of language. 3693 words.
This concluding chapter discusses where the heart of language lies, as with the “gravity” of the earth. In earth, gravity can be related to a grave or digging down. In language, its gravity does not...