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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harpham, Geoffrey Galt, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology, and literary theory have made progress by referring their most difficult theoretical problems to what they presumed were the facts of language. Through a provocative reassessment of major thinkers on the idea of language-Saussure, Wittgenstein, Derrida.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 261 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-253) and index.
ISBN:9781134734252
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9781134734320
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