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BL
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643058
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Utopia del comprendere.English
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Di Cesare, Donatella
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| Title & Author
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Utopia of understanding : : between Babel and Auschwitz /\ Donatella Ester Di Cesare ; translated by Niall Keane
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, c2012
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| Series Statement
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SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy
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xiii, 245 p. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9781438442532 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 143844253X (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Translated from the Italian
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Abstract
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Speaking and understanding can both be thought of as forms of translation, and in this way every speaker is an exile in language-even in one's mother tongue. Drawing from the philosophical hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer, the testimonies of the German Jews and their relation with the German language, Jacques Derrick's confrontation with Hannah Arendt, and the poetry of Paul Celan, Donatella Ester Dr Cesare proclaims Auschwitz the Babel of the twentieth century. She argues that the globalized world is one in which there no longer remains any intimate place or stable dwelling. Understanding becomes a kind of shibboleth that grounds nothing, but opens messianically to a utopia yet to come
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Donatella Ester Di Cesare is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and of Jewish Philosophy at the Collegio Rabbinico Italiano. She is the author of many books, including Grammatica dei tempi messianici; Gadamer, and Ermeneutica della finitezza. Book jacket
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Hermeneutics
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Language and languages-- Philosophy
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| Dewey Classification
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121/.686
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BD241.D425313 2012
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