Utopia of Understanding: Between Babel and Auschwitz by Donatella Di Cesare

Utopia of Understanding: Between Babel and Auschwitz

SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Donatella Di Cesare with Niall Keane (Translator)

245 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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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, ...

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