In his most recent book, Ermanno Bencivenga offers a stylistically
and conceptually exciting investigation of the nature of language,
mind, and personhood and the many ways the three connect.
Bencivenga, one of the most iconoclastic voices to emerge in
contemporary American philosophy, contests the basic assumptions of
analytic (and also, to an extent, postmodern) approaches to these
topics. His exploration leads through fascinating discussions of
education, courage, pain, time and history, selfhood, subjectivity
and objectivity, reality, facts, the empirical, power and
transgression, silence, privacy and publicity, and play—all
themes that are shown to be integral to our thinking about
language. Relentessly bending the rules, Bencivenga frustrates our
expectations of a "proper" theory of language. He invokes the
transgressions of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein even as he
appropriates the aphoristic style of
Wittgenstein's Tractatus. Written in a philosophically
playful and experimental mode, A Theory of Language and
Mind draws the reader into a sense of continual surprise,
therapeutic discomfort, and discovery. This title is part of UC
Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of
California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the
brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on
a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality,
peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1997.
General
| Imprint: |
University of California Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
2021 |
| First published: |
1997 |
| Authors: |
Ermanno Bencivenga
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
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| Pages: |
114 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-520-36017-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-520-36017-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780520360174 |
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