Assignment Due 5/9

Assignment Due 5/9: Choose a passage from "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," write out the passage, explain what it means and why you chose it.

Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible?–The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? Then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language….Not only the entire ability to think rests on language…but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself (Dickson 2007, N III, 286: 1-10). 

John most urgent question is the relationship of languages to think or reason. According to John in order to have knowledge and reason, the nature of your language mattersLanguage is separated into human drive, divine, and natural language which can be communicated in German, English and other languages.. Language is related to "Purification of Philosophy", as explained in the Metacritigue of kent. What one goes though is how they communicate in language.