Labyrinths of Language
Subtitle: Philosophical and Cultural Insvestigations
Publisher: Aakar Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Table of contents: title: Preface and Acknowledgements vii; title: Introduction 1; title: 1. The ‘Social’ and the ‘Cognitive’ in Language:; title: A Reading of Saussure and Beyond 7; title: 2. Between the Self and the Other:; title: Language after Levinas 26; title: 3. On Language and the Assumed Unity of the; title: Human Sciences 46; title: 4. Between Pragmatics and Deconstruction:; title: Wittgenstein, Bakhtin and Derrida 62; title: 5. Time, Language and the Destruction of Power 76; title: 6. Kafka: Literature, Law and Language 91; title: 7. Blanchot, Writing and the Politico-Religious 104; title: 8. The Discourse of Death 125; title: 9. The Body of Sense, the Sense of Body 136; title: 10. Towards a Philosophy of Image 153; title: 11. Culture and Politics in the Novel:; title: On the Banks of the River Mahe 168; title: 12. Globalization of English and the Indian; title: Linguistic Context 185; title: 13. Beginnings of Modern Linguistics and the; title: Colonial Context: Perspectives from History,; title: Culture and Religion 204; title: Bibliography 221