03421oam 2200637I 450 991081477320332120240131141526.01-134-73432-80-415-94218-71-315-88068-71-134-73425-510.4324/9781315880686 (CKB)2550000001112771(EBL)1356345(SSID)ssj0001162228(PQKBManifestationID)11643428(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001162228(PQKBWorkID)11132906(PQKB)10246123(MiAaPQ)EBC1356345(Au-PeEL)EBL1356345(CaPaEBR)ebr10751828(CaONFJC)MIL512651(OCoLC)870590140(OCoLC)897478955(FINmELB)ELB131375(EXLCZ)99255000000111277120130331d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLanguage alone the critical fetish of modernity /Geoffrey Galt HarphamNew York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (272 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-94219-5 1-299-81400-X Includes bibliographical references and index.LANGUAGE ALONE The Critical Fetish ofModernity; Copyright; Contents; Preface; One Language for Beginners; 1.Turning (in)to Language; 2. Saussure and the Concrete Object of Language; 3. Metaphor and the Law of Return: Saussure, Derrida, Rorty; 4. Language and Human Nature; 5. The Critical Fetish of Modernity; Two Ideology and the Form of Language; 1. Ideology and Theory; 2. Marxism and the Economic Specter; 3. From Post-Marxism to Postmodernism; or, It's Not the Economy, Stupid; 4. Language and the Psycho-Ideological Subject; 5. Conclusion: Inversions; Three Ethics and the Law of Language1. Words as Guides, from Hume to Bernard Williams2. Language as Law; On the Kantian ""Maxim"; The Irrational Law: Nietzsche, Levinas, Deconstruction; Law and the Language of the Unconscious: Freud, Chomsky, Lacan; 3.Words against War: The Dream of a Virtuous Language; 4. Language against the Law: Postmodernism, Feminism, and the Fundamentals of Language; 5.Coda: On Culture; InConclusion Language and Humanity; Works Cited; IndexHow did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone, Geoffrey Galt Harpham provides at once the most comprehensive survey and most telling critique of the pervasive role of language in modern thought. He shows how thinkers in such diverse fields as philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology, and literary theory have made progress by referring their most difficult theoretical problems to what they presumed were the facts of language.Through a provocative reassessment of major thinkers on the idea of language-Saussure, Wittgenstein, Derrida,Language and languagesPhilosophyLanguage and cultureLanguage and languagesPhilosophy.Language and culture.401Harpham Geoffrey Galt1946-,465272MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814773203321Language alone3918826UNINA