The Gift of Language: Memory and Promise in Adorno, Benjamin, Heidegger, and Rosenzweig (Library of Jewish Philosophy)

ISBN: 0815628668

Author: D

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In this book Alexander García Dttman explores and expands the works of Heidegger, Rosenzweig, Adorno, Benjamin, and Derrida. Out of his very fresh and pointed re-reading, he uncovers a peculiar correspondence of obsessions, interests, and priorities between these diverse twentieth century philosophies, And from these discoveries Dttman details a singular philosophical theory of memory and promise. Dttman's methodology is as groundbreaking as his discoveries, Alan Udoff writes: "This is not an exposition in the conventional sense: a scholarly, historical report, with some attempt at criticism, Rather, it is at every turn a thinking through of certain texts, a thinking that, in putting questions to the texts . . . reveals or releases what is . . . stored in those texts." Dttman's questions are so philosophically and theologically penetrating that the reader is set out in new direction of thinking. While Dttman's book helps the reader achieve a new understanding of the gift of language in the works of Adorno, Benjamin, Heidegger, and Rosenzweig, his study also is fraught with implications for reading Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas and Lyotard.