Title: The problem of Plato's Cratylus : the relation of language to truth in the history of philosophy /
Authors: Soltes, Ori Z.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Plato.; Language and languages Philosophy
Contents: Introduction: The cratylus and its problems -- The problem of defining terms -- The "etymologies" in the cratylus and their concomitants and the cratylus -- Characters and contexts in the cratylus -- From the ... at the end of the cratylus to language -- Study and linguistic thinking at the end of the nineteenth century -- From Wittgenstein to the cratylus -- From Saussure to Barthes : langue, langage, parole -- Signs, semiology and cratylean concepts -- The cratylus in the passage from Derrida's Deconstruction to Levinas' Ethical conundrum -- Conclusions: From the cratylus to the theological implications of the Holocaust.