Language alone : the critical fetish of modernity / / Geoffrey Galt Harpham

• Autore: Harpham Geoffrey Galt <1946-, >
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Disciplina: 401
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages - Philosophy; Language and culture
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Language ; 1. 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: How 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,
• Titolo autorizzato: Language alone
• ISBN: 1-134-73432-8; 0-415-94218-7; 1-315-88068-7; 1-134-73425-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814773203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II