Will I love The Exile of Language?

Very few philosophical investigations today manage to convey political messages without being ideological, that is, taking a clear political stance. This is the case with Libera Pisano’s study. Through the work of five German-Jewish thinkers, she effectively outlines a “diasporic philosophy of language” that can help us resist the resurgence of authoritarianism, nationalism, and idolatry in the 21st century. This resistance will not succeed—Pisano elegantly explains—until we reject linguistic autochthony, meaning language’s identity with a “specific geographical definition” (4). But why is it necessary to explore the writings of Fritz Mauthner, Gustav Landauer, Margarete Susman, Franz Rosenzweig, and Walter Benjamin… show more.