Communities of Dialogue Russian and Ukrainian Émigrés in Modernist Prague

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Language

Tim Beasley-Murray

pp. 88-121

Abstract

I think that language is much more adapted to giving utterance precisely to that truth [the pravda of responsible activity], and not to the abstract moment of the logical in its purity. That which is abstract, in its purity, is indeed unutterable: any expression is much too concrete for pure meaning – it distorts and dulls the purity and validity-in-itself of meaning. That is why in abstract thinking we never understand an expression in its full sense.

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Beasley-Murray Tim (2007) Mikhail Bakhtin and Walter Benjamin: experience and form. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 88-121

DOI: 10.1057/9780230589605_4

Full citation:

Beasley-Murray Tim (2007) Language, In: Mikhail Bakhtin and Walter Benjamin, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 88–121.