Just Language
Just Language revisits the Weimar period and its representation in the postwar years to explore narratives of linguistic resistance in the works of Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan. How did this generation of exile writers grapple with their experiences of oppression...
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| description | Just Language revisits the Weimar period and its representation in the postwar years to explore narratives of linguistic resistance in the works of Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan. How did this generation of exile writers grapple with their experiences of oppression and persecution? How did they create a language of resistance during the decades that prepared the Third Reich and the Shoah? Facing the devastations of World War I, the book explores how Walter Benjamin analyzed language’s ability to radically break the cyclical violence of war and examines his opposition to expansionism and imperialism in Weimar education and culture. Based on Benjamin’s analysis, Johannßen traces the postwar responses of Hannah Arendt and Paul Celan. While Arendt proposed strategies of metaphorical thinking to counteract the formation of totalitarianism, Celan mobilized silence as a poetic counterforce against oppression and erasure. Just Language argues that every linguistic act and practice, no matter how small or marginalized, entails the ethical task of opposing the normalization and institutionalization of political violence. By tracing how Benjamin and his interlocutors struggled against German fascism, Johannßen presents a memory-based critique of linguistic violence, opening a dialogue between German-Jewish writers and today’s debates on nondiscrimination, propaganda, and social justice. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1735152026-03-19T13:10:06Z Just Language Johannßen, Dennis Language Violence Nonviolence Resistance Politics Fascism Totalitarianism Propaganda Social Justice Social Change Opposition Discrimination Nondiscrimination Hate Speech Freedom of Speech Antiracism Representation Linguistic Critical Theory Frankfurt School Institute of Social Research Deconstruction Walter Benjamin Theodor W. Adorno Hannah Arendt Paul Celan Bertolt Brecht Judith Butler Werner Hamacher Metaphors Multilingualism Education Language Learning Decolonization German Colonialism Weimar Republic Silence Poetry thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies Just Language revisits the Weimar period and its representation in the postwar years to explore narratives of linguistic resistance in the works of Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan. How did this generation of exile writers grapple with their experiences of oppression and persecution? How did they create a language of resistance during the decades that prepared the Third Reich and the Shoah? Facing the devastations of World War I, the book explores how Walter Benjamin analyzed language’s ability to radically break the cyclical violence of war and examines his opposition to expansionism and imperialism in Weimar education and culture. Based on Benjamin’s analysis, Johannßen traces the postwar responses of Hannah Arendt and Paul Celan. While Arendt proposed strategies of metaphorical thinking to counteract the formation of totalitarianism, Celan mobilized silence as a poetic counterforce against oppression and erasure. Just Language argues that every linguistic act and practice, no matter how small or marginalized, entails the ethical task of opposing the normalization and institutionalization of political violence. By tracing how Benjamin and his interlocutors struggled against German fascism, Johannßen presents a memory-based critique of linguistic violence, opening a dialogue between German-Jewish writers and today’s debates on nondiscrimination, propaganda, and social justice. 2026-03-19T13:10:05Z 2026-03-19T13:10:05Z 2026-03-02T17:50:17Z 2026 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/110800 9780472905775 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/173515 eng Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/110800/1/9780472905775.pdf Michigan State University Press University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.14613105 10.3998/mpub.14613105 aa7f6664-5117-41d8-90f8-c3af56526b92 9780472905775 University of Michigan Press 234 open access |
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| topic | Language Violence Nonviolence Resistance Politics Fascism Totalitarianism Propaganda Social Justice Social Change Opposition Discrimination Nondiscrimination Hate Speech Freedom of Speech Antiracism Representation Linguistic Critical Theory Frankfurt School Institute of Social Research Deconstruction Walter Benjamin Theodor W. Adorno Hannah Arendt Paul Celan Bertolt Brecht Judith Butler Werner Hamacher Metaphors Multilingualism Education Language Learning Decolonization German Colonialism Weimar Republic Silence Poetry thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies |
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