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Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary - Language and Morality in J.L. Austin's Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary - Language and Morality in J.L. Austin's Philosophy (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
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This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of J.L. Austin's
philosophy. It opens new ways of thinking about ethics and other
contemporary issues in the wake of Austin's philosophical work.
Austin is primarily viewed as a philosopher of language whose work
focused on the pragmatic aspects of speech. His work on ordinary
language philosophy and speech act theory is seen as his main
contribution to philosophy. This book challenges this received view
to show that Austin used his most well-known theoretical notions as
heuristic tools aimed at debunking the fact/value dichotomy.
Additionally, it demonstrates that Austin's continual returns to
the ordinary is rooted in a desire to show that our lives in
language are complicated and multifaceted. What emerges is an
attempt to think with Austin about problems that are central to
philosophy today-such as the question about linguistic inheritance,
truth, the relationship between a language inherited and morality,
and how we are to cope with linguistic elasticity and historicity.
Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary will appeal to scholars and
advanced students working on Austin's philosophy, philosophy of
language, and the history of analytic philosophy.
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