{"product_id":"arresting-language-from-leibniz-to-benjamin-9780804739603","title":"Arresting Language: From Leibniz to Benjamin","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpeech act theory has taught us \"how to do things with words.\" Arresting Language turns its attention in the opposite directiontoward the surprising things that language can undo and leave undone. In the eight essays of this volume  arresting language is seen as language at rest  words no longer in service to the project of establishing conventions or instituting legal regimes. Concentrating on both widely known and seldom-read texts from a variety of philosophers  writers  and criticsfrom Leibniz and Mendelssohn  through Kleist and Hebel  to Benjamin and Irigaraythe book analyzes the genesis and structure of interruption  a topic of growing interest to contemporary literary studies  continental philosophy  legal studies  and theological reflection. Beginning with an exposition of Hlderlins rigorous account of interruption in terms of the \"pure word \" in which the event of representation alone appears  Arresting Language identifies critical moments in philosophical and literary texts during which language itselfwithout any identifiable speakerarrests otherwise continuous processes and procedures  including the process of representation and the procedures for its legitimization. The book then investigates a series of pure words: the fatal verdict (arrt) of divine wisdom in Leibniz  the performance of Jewish ceremonial practices in Mendelssohn  the issuing of unauthorized arrest warrants in Kleist  fraudulent acts of storytelling in Hebel  the eruption of tragic silence and the \"mass strike\" in Benjamin  and the recurrence of angelic intervention in Irigaray. At the center of this volume is a detailed explication of Benjamins effort to transform Husserls program for a phenomenological epoche into a paradoxically nonprogrammatic  paradisal epoche  by means of which the structure of paradise can be exactly outlined and the Messianic momentas the ultimate event of arresting languagecan at last appear to enter into its own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666349219893,"sku":"ByrdShop_0804739609","price":45.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780804739603.jpg?v=1782429219","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/arresting-language-from-leibniz-to-benjamin-9780804739603","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}