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Routledge Revivals: Pandora and Occam (1992) - On the Limits of Language and Literature (Paperback)
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Routledge Revivals: Pandora and Occam (1992) - On the Limits of Language and Literature (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1992, this book evokes Pandora and Occam as
metaphoric corner posts in an argument about language as discourse
and in doing so, brings analytic philosophy to bear on issues of
Continental philosophy, with attention to linguistic, semiological,
and semiotic concerns. Instead of regarding meanings as guaranteed
by definitions, the author argues that linguistic expressions are
schemata directing us more or less loosely toward the activation of
nonlinguistic sign systems. Ruthrof draws up a heuristic hierarchy
of discourses, with literary expression at the top, descending
through communication-reduced reference and speech acts to formal
logic and digital communication at the bottom. The book offers
multiple perspectives from which to review traditional theories of
meaning, working from a wide variety of theorists, including
Peirce, Frege, Husserl, Derrida, Lyotard, Davidson, and Searle. In
Ruthrof's analysis, Pandora and Occam illustrate the opposition
between the suppressed rich materiality of culturally saturated
discourse and the stark ideality of formal sign systems. This book
will be of interest to those studying linguistics, literature and
philosophy.
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