A New Philosophy of Discourse

Language Unbound

Joshua Kates (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-18695-8 (ISBN)

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What would happen if structures, forms, and other stand-alone entities thought to comprise our intellectual toolkit—words, meanings, signs—were jettisoned? How would a work written in a purportedly dead language, like The Iliad, or penned in a foreign tongue be approached if deemed legible without structures such as meaning-bearing signs or grammatical rules?

A New Philosophy of Discourse charts a novel course in response to these questions, coining an original concept of discourse, or talk!, that Joshua Kates presents as more fundamental than language. In Kates’ conception of discourse, writing and speech take shape entirely as events, situated within histories, contexts, and traditions themselves always in the making. Combining literary theory, literary criticism, and philosophy, to reveal a new perspective on discourse, Kates focuses on literary criticism, literary texts by Charles Bernstein and Stanley Elkin, and the philosophical writings of Stanley Cavell, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Donald Davidson and Martin Heidegger.

This ground-breaking study bridges the analytical/continental divide, by working through concrete problems using novel and extended interpretations with wide-ranging implications for the humanities.

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.

Acknowledgements

Preface: Theory’s Redux?

Part I Discourse

1. Discourse in Contemporary Literary Studies (Limit Cases and Spectra)

2. Discourse as Literary Innovation (Charles Bernstein)

3. From Persons to Words: “I am Stanley Cavell”

4. Nothing is Metaphor

5. Yet “It’s Personal”: The Politics of Personhood (Martha Nussbaum, Cora Diamond, Stanley Elkin)

Part II Discourse and Text

6. Can the Text be “Saved” in Discourse? (The Early Walter Michaels)

7. Why Language Can’t Help (Truth and Method)

8. Discourse (The Early Martin Heidegger)

9. Discourse and Text (Davidson and Heidegger)

Selected Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.11.2020
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-18695-3 / 1350186953
ISBN-13	978-1-350-18695-8 / 9781350186958
Zustand	Neuware