Language Alone
Subtitle: The Critical Fetish of Modernity
Publisher: Routledge
Published: September 6, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415942188
First sentence: If the cultural and intellectual life of a century could be expressed in a sentence, then a leading candidate for that honor, as far as the twentieth century in the West is concerned, is the following from Wittgenstein's philosophical investigations: "And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life" (1997: I 19: 8).