{"product_id":"utopia-of-understanding-donatella-ester-di-cesare-9781438442532","title":"Utopia of Understanding: Between Babel and Auschwitz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA hermeneutics of language after Auschwitz.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpeaking and understanding can both be thought of as forms of translation, and in this way every speaker is an exile in language-even in one's mother tongue. Drawing from the philosophical hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer, the testimonies of the German Jews and their relation with the German language, Jacques Derrida's confrontation with Hannah Arendt, and the poetry of Paul Celan, Donatella Ester Di Cesare proclaims Auschwitz the Babel of the twentieth century. She argues that the globalized world is one in which there no longer remains any intimate place or stable dwelling. Understanding becomes a kind of shibboleth that grounds nothing, but opens messianically to a utopia yet to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donatella Ester Di Cesare\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 143844253X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438442532\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/16\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 259\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Donatella Ester Di Cesare","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088255758591,"sku":"9781438442532","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4fcac7aa-2c1e-4171-b54b-05cee484d3f2.jpg?v=1769103898","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/utopia-of-understanding-donatella-ester-di-cesare-9781438442532","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}