ON LANGUAGE AROUND 1916

WALTER BENJAMIN’S CRITIQUE OF THE YOUNG HEIDEGGER’S HABILITATION THESIS

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Keywords:

language, meaning, scholasticism, phenomenology

Abstract

This paper intends to analyze Walter Benjamin’s critique
of Heidegger’s habilitation thesis Duns Scotus’s Doctrine of Categories and
Meaning. This objective will be carried out from a contrast between Heidegger’s
thesis and the essay that Benjamin writes at the same time entitled On Language
as Such and on the Language of Man. Likewise, the reasons that lead Benjamin
to critically comment on Heidegger’s thesis will be studied from two perspectives:
the problem of translation and the Heideggerian recovery of Neo-Kantianism.
Considering the rehabilitation of scholasticism and phenomenology at the
beginning of the 20th century, an attempt will be made to reconstruct an
implicit debate between the authors around 1916 to account for the distance
between Heidegger’s logical conception of language and Benjamin’s theological
conception of language.

Author Biography

  • Maria Paula Viglione, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

    PhD in Philosophy and Graduate in Philosophy from the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences (FaHCE) of the National University of La Plata (UNLP), Argentina. She teaches at said University and at the National University of the Arts (UNA), Argentina. She has a doctoral scholarship with workplace at the Center for Research in Philosophy (CIeFi) of the Institute for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (IdIHCS) of the FaHCE-UNLP. She is part of research projects on contemporary philosophy at the CIeFi and the Center for Philosophical Research (CIF-CONICET) and has published specialized articles on the early thought of Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger. She was a fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) on two occasions, doing a doctoral research stay at the Husserl Archiv of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

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ON LANGUAGE AROUND 1916: WALTER BENJAMIN’S CRITIQUE OF THE YOUNG HEIDEGGER’S HABILITATION THESIS. Revista Kriterion, [S. l.], v. 65, n. 158, p. e-42507, 2024. Disponível em: https://periodicos-hml.cecom.ufmg.br/index.php/kriterion/article/view/42507. Acesso em: 6 oct. 2025.