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Chapman, Edmund (2023) Language, Soil and "Jewish" Alienation in Levinas and Adorno. Diacritics, 51 (1). pp. 1-33.
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Abstract
Emmanuel Levinas and Theodor Adorno are both post-Shoah philosophers who experienced refugeedom. In different contexts, both discuss the question of a linkage between language and soil, and ultimately show that the distinction between the native and the foreign is untenable. I suggest that Levinas’s evocation of linguistic soil illustrates his understanding of Jewishness as defined by a ceding of ground, thus showing that Levinas’s thought relies on a conception of ground in order to then reject it. Adorno, in evoking a “language without soil,” argues for a conception of language that rejects organicism, seeing both loanwords and Jews as examples of difference without foreignness.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Language; Soil; Jewish; Alienation; Levinas; Adorno; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies > English |
| Item ID: | 18360 |
| Depositing User: | Mr Edmund Chapman |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Apr 2024 08:49 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Diacritics |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Funders: | Irish Research Council |
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| URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/18360 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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