What would happen if structures, forms, and other stand-alone
entities thought to comprise our intellectual toolkit—words,
meanings, signs—were jettisoned? How would a work written in a
purportedly dead language, like The Iliad, or penned in a foreign
tongue be approached if deemed legible without structures such as
meaning-bearing signs or grammatical rules? A New Philosophy of
Discourse charts a novel course in response to these questions,
coining an original concept of discourse, or talk!, that Joshua
Kates presents as more fundamental than language. In Kates’
conception of discourse, writing and speech take shape entirely as
events, situated within histories, contexts, and traditions
themselves always in the making. Combining literary theory,
literary criticism, and philosophy, to reveal a new perspective on
discourse, Kates focuses on literary criticism, literary texts by
Charles Bernstein and Stanley Elkin, and the philosophical writings
of Stanley Cavell, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Donald Davidson and Martin
Heidegger. This ground-breaking study bridges the
analytical/continental divide, by working through concrete problems
using novel and extended interpretations with wide-ranging
implications for the humanities.
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