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Index
Cover
Title Page
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Contents
0 Introduction – The Event of Language
1 Of Language as an ‘Event’ – Heymann Steinthal
1.1 Steinthal’s Mediation between Hegel and Humboldt
1.2 Philosophy of Language and Linguistics
Excursus on the Organism of Language
1.3 Anthropology and Linguistics
1.4 Language as Generation in the Spirit
2 The Origin of Language from ‘Almost Nothing’ – Lazarus Geiger
2.1 Darwin and Linguistics
2.2 The Origin of Languages in the Light of Darwin’s Theory
2.3 Concerning the Difference between Anthropology and Linguistics
2.4 On the Development of Language from ‘almost nothing’
2.5 Linguistic Development and Linguistic Diversity
3 The ‘Spirit of Language’ – Moritz Lazarus
3.1 On Language
3.2 On Cultural Development or the Influence of Language on Spirit
3.3 The Understanding in Language or Conversation
3.4 The Project of a Natural History of Conversation
4 ‘The Peace of Humour’ – Hermann Cohen
4.1 The World-history of the Spirit and the Peace of Humour
4.2 Moritz Lazarus’ Psychology of Humour
4.3 On the Nature of Human Beings and the Human Beings in Nature
A Digression on Laughter
4.4 Messianism and the Ideal of Peace in Cohen
5 On Tact as Form of Sociability
5.1 A Genealogy of Tact in Kant and Herbart
5.2 Moritz Lazarus on the Counter-sense of Tact
5.3 Georg Simmel on Tact and Sociability
5.4 Helmuth Plessner on the “Wisdom of Tact”
6 At the Limits of the ‘Critique of Language’ – Fritz Mauthner
6.1 Mauthner’s Contributions to the Critique of Language (1901 – 2)
Excursus on the History of the Categories
6.2 The Origination and Development of Language
6.3 History of Language and Reason
6.4 The Actuality of Language
6.5 Suicide through the Critique of Language – A Crossing of the Boundary
6.6 Mauthner’s Concept of the Critique of Language in the Mirror of His Critics
7 From the Critique of Language to a ‘Critique of Culture’ – Ernst Cassirer
7.1 Connection to the Humboldt Tradition – on the Theory of Language
7.2 Naturalism versus Humanism – the Transition to the Philosophy of Culture
7.3 Aporiai of the Theory of Language and Culture
7.4 From the Theory of Language to Anthropology
8 Conclusion – Language, Culture and Individuality
Bibliography
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