LENGUAJE Y VIOLENCIA ENTRE BENJAMIN Y CANETTI

Abstract

In this article it is argued the cliché according to which it woud be an absolute opposition between comunication and violence, language and power. This cliché is stated in common conversation and between philosophers, as it is the case of Arendt, Apel and Habermas. In order to review it, Esposito make use of three authors —Benjamin, Blanchot y Canetti— and he shows the critical progression that leads to the author of Mass and power. In Canetti’s point of view, violence and power are recorded in the very heart of the language, especially in orders and questions. But in Canetti, like in Benjamin, it is also stated another kind of language which is beyond power’s logic, a language which remains incomprehensible and almost inexpressible: that of his childhood in Rustschuk and that of the beggar of Marrakesch.