TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hamilton,John T.
TI  - Philology of the flesh
SN  - 9780226572963
AV  - BT220 
U1  - 232/.1 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Chicago, London
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Incarnation
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Philology
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Histoire des doctrines
KW  - Philologie
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Christology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Elliptical prolegomena -- Before the word -- This loved philology -- Implications of citation -- The mountain and the molehill -- Carnal inscriptions -- The stillest night
N2  - As the Christian doctrine of Incarnation asserts, "the Word became Flesh." Yet, while this metaphor is grounded in Christian tradition, its varied functions far exceed any purely theological import. It speaks to the nature of God just as much as to the nature of language. In Philology of the Flesh, John T. Hamilton explores writing and reading practices that engage this notion in a range of poetic enterprises and theoretical reflections. By pressing the notion of philology as "love" (philia) for the "word" (logos), Hamilton's readings investigate the breadth, depth, and limits of verbal styles that are irreducible to mere information. While a philologist of the body might understand words as corporeal vessels of core meaning, the philologist of the flesh, by focusing on the carnal qualities of language, resists taking words as mere containers. By examining a series of intellectual episodes--from the fifteenth-century Humanism of Lorenzo Valla to the poetry of Emily Dickinson, from Immanuel Kant and Johann Georg Hamann to Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka, and Paul Celan--Philology of the Flesh considers the far-reaching ramifications of the incarnational metaphor, insisting on the inseparability of form and content, an insistence that allows us to rethink our relation to the concrete languages in which we think and live
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