New Philosophy of Discourse
Subtitle: Language Unbound
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781350163621
Description: "Calling into question all structural rules and principles relating to language, Joshua Kates presents a radical new path for interpreting this every day, taken-for-granted tool of communication. Traversing theory, literary criticism, philosophy, and the philosophy of language, the book speaks to contemporary debates on analytical and humanistic modes of inquiry. Language and texts are thought of as active 'events', replete with allusions to history, context and tradition that are always in the making. This emphasis makes the case for a rigorous inquiry of text and talk in all their forms, bridging the continental and analytical divide in the process"--