Cargando…

Language alone : the critical fetish of modernity /

How did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone, Geoffrey Galt Harpham provides at once the most comprehensive survey and most telling critique of the pervasive role of language in modern thought. He shows how thinkers in such diverse fields as philoso...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harpham, Geoffrey Galt, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2002.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Language for Beginners
  • Turning (in)to Language
  • Saussure and the Concrete Object of Language
  • Metaphor and the Law of Return: Saussure, Derrida, Rorty
  • Language and Human Nature
  • The Critical Fetish of Modernity
  • Ideology and the Form of Language
  • Ideology and Theory
  • Marxism and the Economic Specter
  • From Post-Marxism to Postmodernism; or, It's Not the Economy, Stupid
  • Language and the Psycho-Ideological Subject
  • Conclusion: Inversions
  • Ethics and the Law of Language
  • Words as Guides, from Hume to Bernard Williams
  • Language as Law
  • On the Kantian "Maxim"
  • The Irrational Law: Nietzsche, Levinas, Deconstruction
  • Law and the Language of the Unconscious: Freud, Chomsky, Lacan
  • Words against War: The Dream of a Virtuous Language
  • Language against the Law: Postmodernism, Feminism, and the Fundamentals of Language
  • Coda: On Culture
  • InConclusion: Language and Humanity.