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Labyrinths of Language - Philosophical and Cultural Investigations (Hardcover)
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Labyrinths of Language - Philosophical and Cultural Investigations (Hardcover)
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Thirteen essays in the book explore and investigate diverse
contemporary philosophically current themes and issues. The title
is derived from Wittgenstein's statement that 'anguage is a
labyrinth of paths,' and it studiously avoids any conclusive claim
on its central motif. What people, both users and theorists, do
with language, rather than what it is, is the running theme. The
book critically presents the views of a wide range of
philosophically and analytically oriented authors including, de
Saussure, Levinas, Levi-Strauss, Wittgenstein, Derrida, Bakhtin,
Benjamin, Kafka, Heidegger, Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, Barthes and
Deleuze. Only two essays diverge from the main concern with
language: the one on the discourse of death, and another on the
philosophy of image. One essay involves an analysis of the cultural
and political discourse in a contemporary Malayalam novel. The
concluding essay attempts to develop a postcolonial field of
language studies, with reference to the works of the 18th century
British jurist and linguist Sir William Jones and the subsequent
philological tradition, whose political consequences are only
beginning to be understood.
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