The Life of Quotation and the (Re)Invention of Tradition

Benjamin E. Sax

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Conclusion The Life of Quotation and the (Re)Invention of Tradition

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Pages:: 237–248

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004680210_009

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The conclusion explores the political and philosophical implication of this study. Jacques Derrida’s challenge to philosophical thinking remains fundamental to the vicissitudes of the genre and discipline of modern Jewish thought: Any critical engagement with Western literary or philosophical culture ineluctably must account for the phenomena of literary theory. Here I turn to the work of Vilém Flusser who investigates how writing determines and engages temporality in relation to technology and the move toward the digital. His work also labors to address the rise of information technology. Flusser’s work is important to how we study and engage language. He vehemently disagreed with Derrida that writing provides the temporal template for all media. For Flusser, Derrida could not account for the myriad differences separating media in culture, nor could he account for the rise of information technology and the digitization of texts. In fact, for Flusser, the salient flaw in Derrida’s view of writing is that deconstruction simply does not address the conceptual chasm separating a culture that values writing from a culture that values images. Taking seriously Flusser’s critique, I argue that Benjamin and Rosenzweig’s views on language and quotation are in a better position to build a bridge over this chasm.

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Winged Words: Benjamin, Rosenzweig, and the Life of Quotation

Series: Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Volume: 35

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004680210

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 17 Jul 2023

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