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1 online resource (x, 261 pages) |
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Language for Beginners -- Turning (in)to Language -- Saussure and the Concrete Object of Language -- Metaphor and the Law of Return: Saussure, Derrida, Rorty -- Language and Human Nature -- The Critical Fetish of Modernity -- Ideology and the Form of Language -- Ideology and Theory -- Marxism and the Economic Specter -- From Post-Marxism to Postmodernism; or, It's Not the Economy, Stupid -- Language and the Psycho-Ideological Subject -- Conclusion: Inversions -- Ethics and the Law of Language -- Words as Guides, from Hume to Bernard Williams -- Language as Law -- On the Kantian "Maxim" -- The Irrational Law: Nietzsche, Levinas, Deconstruction -- Law and the Language of the Unconscious: Freud, Chomsky, Lacan -- Words against War: The Dream of a Virtuous Language -- Language against the Law: Postmodernism, Feminism, and the Fundamentals of Language -- Coda: On Culture -- InConclusion: Language and Humanity |
| Summary |
How did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone, Geoffrey Galt Harpham provides at once the most comprehensive survey and most telling critique of the pervasive role of language in modern thought. He shows how thinkers in such diverse fields as philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology, and literary theory have made progress by referring their most difficult theoretical problems to what they presumed were the facts of language. Through a provocative reassessment of major thinkers on the idea of language-Saussure, Wittgenstein, Derrida |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-253) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy
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Moderne
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Aufklärung
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Sprachtheorie
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Sprachphilosophie
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Linguagem (filosofia)
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134734252 |
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1134734255 |
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9781134734320 |
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1134734328 |
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