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Experience and Infinite Task

Knowledge, Language and Messianism in the Philosophy of Walter Benjamin

By: Tamara Tagliacozzo

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Knowledge, Language and Messianism in the Philosophy of Walter Benjamin

By: Tamara Tagliacozzo

This book examines the philosophical thought of the young Walter Benjamin and its development in his later work. Starting from his critique of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Hermann Cohen, the author traces the relationships among Benjamin’s theories — developed in tandem with his friend Gershom Scholem — of knowledge, language, ethics, politics, the philosophy of history and aesthetics, all linked to the Judaic theme of messianism and language as a realm of redemption. She delineates a horizon in which the concept of experience as structure, philosophical system and “infinite task” (On the Program of the Coming Philosophy, 1917/18) evolves into a concept of the origin as monad (The Origin of German Tragic Drama, 1925), merging finally into the historical concept as monad and dialectical image (On the Concept of History, 1940). Tagliacozzo asserts that the concept of experience as structure and symbolic system, derived from his critical interpretation of Kant and Neo-Kantianism, develops into a conception of thought founded on a theological language of revelation.

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1786600439

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Subject Siam

Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand

By: Tamara Loos

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Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand

By: Tamara Loos

Unlike its Southeast Asian neighbors, Thailand was never colonized by an imperial power. However, Siam (as Thailand was called until 1939) shared a great deal in common with both colonized states and imperial powers: its sovereignty was qualified by imperial nations while domestically its leaders pursued European colonial strategies of juridical control in the Muslim south. The creation of family law and courts in that region and in Siam proper most clearly manifests Siam's dualistic position. Demonstrating the centrality of gender relations, law, and Siam's Malay Muslims to the history of modern Thailand, Subject Siam examines the structures and social history of jurisprudence to gain insight into Siam's unique position within Southeast Asian history. Tamara Loos elaborates on the processes of modernity through an in-depth study of hundreds of court cases involving polygyny, marriage, divorce, rape, and inheritance adjudicated between the 1850s and 1930s. Most important, this study of Siam offers a novel approach to the question of modernity precisely because Siam was not colonized yet was subject to transnational discourses and symbols of modernity. In Siam, Loos finds, the language of modernity was not associated with a foreign, colonial overlord, so it could be deployed both by elites who favored continuation of existing domestic hierarchies and by those advocating political and social change.

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Cornell University Press

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1501728253

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Experience and Infinite Task

Knowledge, Language and Messianism in the Philosophy of Walter Benjamin

By: Tamara Tagliacozzo

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Knowledge, Language and Messianism in the Philosophy of Walter Benjamin

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Experience and Infinite Task

Experience and Infinite Task

Subject Siam

Subject Siam

Experience and Infinite Task

Experience and Infinite Task

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