A New Philosophy of Discourse: Language Unbound - Hardcover

Joshua Kates

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350163627 ISBN 13: 9781350163621

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

Synopsis

What would happen if structures, forms, and other stand-alone entities thought to comprise our intellectual toolkitwords, meanings, signswere jettisoned? How would a work written in a purportedly dead language, like The Iliad, or penned in a foreign tongue be approached without structures such as meaning-bearing signs and grammatical rules? From these questions the original concept of 'talk!' is introduced as an innovative new method for interpreting texts and speech, combining literary theory, literary criticism, philosophy, and philosophy of language. With a focus on humanistic, literary texts, critics including, Derek Attridge, Mary Poovey, and Charles Altieri are drawn alongside philosophers, Stanley Cavell, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Martin Heidegger to reveal the possibilities of a new discourse for a variety of people working in and studying the humanities today. In this method, language and texts are thought of as active events, replete with allusions to history, context and tradition that are always in the making. Structural analyses are found wanting and exposed for their copious limitations in this ground-breaking study which bridges the analytical/continental divide, placing rigorous inquiry at the heart of its humanistic approach.

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About the Author

Joshua Kates is currently Professor of English, and Adjunct Professor, Germanic Studies, at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. He has published two books on Derrida's early writings and their contexts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350163627
• ISBN 13: 9781350163621
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256