The Conversation of Humanity
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2007
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-2626-1 (ISBN)
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Based on the author's Page-Barbour lectures, delivered at the University of Virginia in 2005, this work critically examines the idea that the nature of language can best be understood in terms of the model or figure of conversation.
Based on the author's Page-Barbour lectures, delivered at the University of Virginia in 2005, ""The Conversation of Humanity"" critically examines the idea that the nature of language can best be understood in terms of the model or figure of conversation. According to this idea, language has an essentially dialogical or discursive structure, reflecting the ways in which different dimensions of the cultural economy bear upon each other. Mulhall addresses the peculiar way in which philosophy must be understood both as one of those interlocking elements and as the place in which the culture reflects upon its own overarching unity. The book explores the articulation of these ideas in the work of Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Cavell in ways that cross the divide between the ""analytical"" and ""Continental"" philosophical traditions, and shows how they bear upon the idea of moral perfectionism and its conception of the internal structure of self. The link Mulhall clarifies between the fate of philosophy and the fate of culture helps explain why sophistry or nihilism is such a profound threat, both to philosophy and to culture. Resistance to nihilism, in fact, comes to appear as the central concern of a certain tradition of moral perfectionism that Cavell has associated with Emerson and Thoreau, and with a variety of other creative figures in philosophy, literature, and cinema. The book concludes, as it begins, with an examination of the ways in which the interrelatedness of language and culture can be seen to draw upon and reconfigure essentially religious forms of thought.
Based on the author's Page-Barbour lectures, delivered at the University of Virginia in 2005, ""The Conversation of Humanity"" critically examines the idea that the nature of language can best be understood in terms of the model or figure of conversation. According to this idea, language has an essentially dialogical or discursive structure, reflecting the ways in which different dimensions of the cultural economy bear upon each other. Mulhall addresses the peculiar way in which philosophy must be understood both as one of those interlocking elements and as the place in which the culture reflects upon its own overarching unity. The book explores the articulation of these ideas in the work of Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Cavell in ways that cross the divide between the ""analytical"" and ""Continental"" philosophical traditions, and shows how they bear upon the idea of moral perfectionism and its conception of the internal structure of self. The link Mulhall clarifies between the fate of philosophy and the fate of culture helps explain why sophistry or nihilism is such a profound threat, both to philosophy and to culture. Resistance to nihilism, in fact, comes to appear as the central concern of a certain tradition of moral perfectionism that Cavell has associated with Emerson and Thoreau, and with a variety of other creative figures in philosophy, literature, and cinema. The book concludes, as it begins, with an examination of the ways in which the interrelatedness of language and culture can be seen to draw upon and reconfigure essentially religious forms of thought.
Stephen Mulhall, Fellow in Philosophy at New College, Oxford, is the author of Philosophical Myths of the Fall and Inheritance and Originality: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.4.2007 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Charlottesville |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 305 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8139-2626-2 / 0813926262 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8139-2626-1 / 9780813926261 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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