What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the powerful techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current deconstructionist literary critics? This book is the first to explore such questions in the context of modern analytic and linguistic philosophy. In doing so it opens up a new and challenging dimension of inter-disciplinary study.
Language, Minds, and Knowledge
Necessity and Language
The volume also includes texts of redrafted material by Waismann closely based on the dictations." --Book Jacket.
本书是语言哲学较晚期重要人物万德勒的一部代表著作,他运用了现代语言学的手段来讨论语言哲学问题。
本书分为七章,第一章讨论语言学是否能帮助哲学,作者的回答是肯定的;从第二章到第七章,每一章考察一组语言现象,考察时借用了现代语言学的工具,得出的则是具有哲学意义的结论。
A philosophical examination and celebration of the human hand.
Winckelmann possessed style , grace and elegance , but connectedness and getting it right were not his virtues . Because his inner life and its outer expression in writing were not connected , he failed to understand the art of his own ...
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Exploring the work of artists from across the centuries - from Diego Velázquez to Wesley Kimler, from Sigmar Polke to Lawrence Weiner - Mark Brandl argues that metaphor is the foundation of most visual thought, and that art-as-language is ...