Words Mediating between the Two Transcendental Fields

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  • ふたつの超越を媒介する言葉
  • フタツ ノ チョウエツ オ バイカイ スル コトバ

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<p>One may feel the power of language not only in a poem written by Michio Mado at the age of ninety seven but also even in one by a seven-year-old child. The same power can be found in Yoshirō Ishihara's essays and poems on his experiences in Siberia as a prisoner of war. According to the linguistic philosophy of Walter Benjamin, there are three kinds of language; the language of things, the language of human beings, and the words of God. The language of human beings, he says, exists to mediate between things and God, that is, between the two transcendental levels. In this sense, Ishihara's words express something transcendental both in and beyond realities.</p>

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  • Japanese Literature

    Japanese Literature 63 (8), 85-93, 2014-08-10

    Japanese Literature Association

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