The imagination of reference
Subtitle: meditating the linguistic condition
By: Edouard Morot-Sir.
Series: University of Florida humanities monograph ;; 66; University of Florida monographs.; no. 66.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Reference (Philosophy); Language and languages -- Philosophy.; Philosophy, Modern.
Description: "In a radical attempt to explore and restructure the presuppositions in any philosophy of language. Edouard Morot-Sir examines such current concepts as "natural languages," "linguistic necessity," and "implicite, explicite." Challenging such thinkers as Bergson, Heidegger, Chomsky, and Rorty, he argues that reference is the fundamental act by which signs and referents exist and make sense, and that "any linguistic expression belongs to the experience of reference." As such, he writes, reference is the center of human cultural existence. All value judgments - whether religious, scientific, moral, or artistic - should be conceived of as positive or negative reference. He considers this work the necessary first step for a new form of criticism he proposes to call "reference criticism.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-163) and index.