This text investigates some of the central concepts by which we currently organize our thought and lives. It examines what "words do and perform" and the extent to which the language we use mediates and shapes our experience. The thinkers engaged include Bataille, Adorno, and Foucault.
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Martin Jay is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute for Social Research, 1923-1950; Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukacs to Habermas; and Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought."
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