Modernism and the Language of Philosophy (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy) - Softcover

Matar, Anat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415759021 ISBN 13: 9780415759021

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Modernism can be characterised by the acute attention it gives to language, to its potential and its limitations. Philosophers, artists and literary critics working in the first third of the twentieth century emphasized language’s creative potential, but also stressed its inability to express meaning completely and accurately. In particular, modernists shared the belief that the kind of truth sub specie aeterni that was sought by philosophers was either meaningless or was more appropriately expressed by the arts – especially by literature and poetry. Modernism and the Language of Philosophy addresses the challenge this belief presented to philosophy, and argues that the modernist assumption rests upon a host of unacknowledged, repressed or denied dogmas or tacit images.

Drawing in particular upon the work of Michale Dummett and Jacques Derrida, this book explores a new solution to this crisis in philosophical language, and it is these two philosophers who drive the narrative of the book and offer perspectives through which both past and present day philosophers are examined.

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About the Author

Anat Matar is a senior lecturer at Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415759021
• ISBN 13: 9780415759021
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224