Benjamin and wittgenstein: Signals and affinities

Critical Inquiry

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 235-246

  Cavell, Stanley ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33751371397     PISSN: 00931896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/448918     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. and Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, trans. Harr)' Zohn, ed. Hannah Arendt (New York, 1969)
2. Benjamin, "Program for a Proletarian Children's Theater," in The Weimar Republic Sourcebook, trans. Don Reneau et al., ed. Anton Kaes, Martin Jay, and Edward Dimendberg (Berkeley, 1994), p. 233
3. See Jeffrey Mehlman, Walter Benjamin for Children: An Essay on His Radio Years (Chicago, 1993)
4. See Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 3d ed., trans. G. E. M. Anscombe (London, 1958), for example, §47; hereafter abbreviated PI
5. See Benjamin, "Karl Kraus," Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings, trans. Edmund Jephcott, ed. Peter Demetz (New York, 1978), pp. 239-73
6. Benjamin, The Origin of German Tragic Drama, trans. John Osborne (1977; London, 1985), p. 155; hereafter abbreviated OG; see also p. 158
7. See Martin Heidegger, "Language," Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter, ed. J. Glenn Gray (New York, 1975), pp. 194-95
8. See Beatrice Hanssen, Walter Benjamin's Other History: Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, andAngels (Berkeley, 1997)
9. Benjamin, "Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death," Illuminations,p. 122
10. Benjamin, "The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism," trans. David Lachterman, Howard Eiland, and Ian Belfour, Selected Writings, 1913-1926, ed. Marcus Bullock and Michael W.Jennings (Cambridge, Mass., 1996), p. 179
11. Benjamin, "Goethe's Elective Affinities," trans. Stanley Corngold, Selected Writings, 1913-1926, pp. 300, 301
12. Benjamin, "On Language as Such and on the Language of Man," trans. Jephcott, Selected Writings, 1913-1926, p. 72
13. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," Essays and Lectures, ed. Joel Porte (New York, 1983), p. 264
14. Emerson, "New England Reformers," Essays and Lectures, p. COO
15. Benjamin, "Goethe's Elective Affinities," p. 356
16. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, in The Riverside Shakespeare, ed. G. Blakemore Evans et al. (Boston, 1974), 5.1.135-37, p. 1011