RUINS: ON WALTER BENJAMIN`S PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE

Abstract

The text focuses on the concept of language in the work of Walter Benjamin, mainly in his seminal work “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man” (1916) and in his later monograph “The Origin of the German Baroque Drama” (1928). The central research question regards the place of the early concept of language in the general framework of baroque allegory and fragmentation that Benjamin develops in his monograph.