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A New Philosophy of Discourse: Language Unbound
Contributor(s): Kates, Joshua (Author)

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 ISBN: 1350163627     ISBN-13: 9781350163621
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
OUR PRICE: $141.75  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Language
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
- Philosophy | Hermeneutics
Dewey: 401.41
LCCN: 2020029941
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (1.23 lbs) 232 pages
 
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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 Interpretation 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.
 
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