Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
First published Thu Mar 20, 2008; substantive revision
Thu Jun 14, 2012
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888–1973) was a sociologist and social philosopher
who, along with his close friend Franz Rosenzweig, and Ferdinand Ebner and
Martin Buber, was a major exponent of speech thinking or dialogicism. The
central insight of speech thinking is that speech or language is not merely, or
even primarily, a descriptive act, but a responsive and creative act which is
the basis of our social existence.[1] The greater part of
Rosenstock-Huessy's work was devoted to demonstrating how speech/language,
through its unpredictable fecundity, expands our powers and, through its
inescapably historical forming character, also binds them. According to
Rosenstock-Huessy, speech makes us collective masters of time and gives us the
ability to overcome historical death by founding new, more expansive and
fulfilling spaces of social-life[more]
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