EAN: 9781433115967

BODY LANGUAGE - JULIA GOESSER ASSAIANTE GEBUNDEN

Body Language: Corporeality  Subjectivity  and Language in Johann Georg Hamann addresses the
centrality of sensual perception to the constitution of subjectivity and the resulting
relationship between subjectivity and language in the work of Johann Georg Hamann. In positing
the body as the entity that conditions a subject's encounter with the world  Hamann  it is
argued  prefigures a notion of finite subjectivity that not only runs counter to the
Enlightenment tradition but also reemerges in nineteenth- (Kierkegaard and Nietzsche) and
twentieth-century (Benjamin) discourses on the tension between subjectivity and the abstraction
of language. The paradox at the heart of this investigation is Hamann's radical circumscription
of reason as expressed through language  which nevertheless attempts to recuperate the concept
of universal meaning through faith. Language is wrested away from abstraction and  therefore 
any universality  and becomes the expression of the finite  corporeal subjectivity  a state of
limitation that is at once granted and resolved by a divine creator.

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