The Greek word logos was fundamental for the development of Western thinking. Through logos, the word, God created the world in Judeo-Christian religious traditions. However, in Western modern philosophy, logos is understood mainly as reason and rationality. This study hypothesizes that Walter Benjamin s thinking interprets logos as language, thus unifying fields that would otherwise be divided. The interpretation of the German theoretician allows — as this study argues — for a change at the basis of western philosophy by giving new meaning to repressed themes such as myth, art and history. Language is a structuring interpretation of reality. The essence of things is linguistic: people translate and interpret the world. This brings back the pre-modern idea of reading the world, which was replaced by mathematical analyses, put forth by the scientific revolution. The recovery of the centrality of language allows, in sum, for alternative ideas regarding truth and experience to emerge. The two ideas are no longer based on eternal, universal values, but fully a part of the precariousness of history and human language. This is what this study aims at bringing to light.