Modernism and the Language of Philosophy |
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| Author:
| Matar, Anat |
| Series title: | Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy |
| ISBN: | 978-0-415-75902-1 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2015 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $89.99 |
Book Description:
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Modernism can be characterised by the acute attention it gives to language, to its potential and its limitations. Philosophers, artists and literary critics working in the first third of the twentieth century emphasized language's creative potential, butnbsp;also stressed its inability to express meaning completely and accurately. In particular, modernists shared the belief that the kind of truth sub specie aeterni that was sought by philosophers was either meaningless or was more...
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Modernism can be characterised by the acute attention it gives to language, to its potential and its limitations. Philosophers, artists and literary critics working in the first third of the twentieth century emphasized language's creative potential, butnbsp;also stressed its inability to express meaning completely and accurately. In particular, modernists shared the belief that the kind of truth sub specie aeterni that was sought by philosophers was either meaningless or was more appropriately expressed by the arts - especially by literature and poetry. Modernism and the Language of Philosophy addresses the challenge this beliefnbsp;presented to philosophy, and argues that the modernist assumption rests upon a host of unacknowledged, repressed or denied dogmas or tacit images.
Drawing in particular upon the work of Michale Dummett and Jacques Derrida, this book explores anbsp;new solution to this crisis in philosophical language, and it is these two philosophers who drive the narrativenbsp;of the booknbsp;andnbsp;offer perspectivesnbsp;through which both past and present day philosophers are examined.
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