The Limits of Language concerns itself with the nature and limits
of language at a time when our understanding of the world and of
ourselves is intimately related to what we understand of language.
It offers a detailed examination of different approaches to, and
claims about, language drawn from the variety of orientations taken
toward it, primarily in the twentieth century. What makes the
author's approach unique is its concern with the ways in which we
may understand language and its relation to the world and ourselves
as a question of limits, drawing upon contemporary continental and
English-language views of language, philosophical and linguistic,
from American pragmatists such as Peirce and Dewey, and from
important contemporary sources such as feminist theory. The book
bridges English-language and continental discussions of language
partly by recognizing their contrasts but systematically developing
an overarching view of language out of their interaction. The focus
of the book on the limits of language leads from questions
concerning a science of language, and how such a science may
attempt to demarcate its limits, as in Saussure and Chomsky, to a
view of grammar and structure, of rules, in language, again issues
of whether there are permanent and far-reaching limits to language
and to human linguistic capabilities. In addition, the limits of
language mark the limits of humanity and our understanding of the
world, as expressed in Wittgenstein and Heidegger, for example, so
that exploration of language limits lead to the very limits of
nature and experience, of individual and social life. These, as
many contemporary writers argue, including Levinas, Lyotard, and
Irigaray, are notontological, but are fundamentally ethical and
political. In other words, far-reaching explorations in the
possibilities of another ethics and politics emerge from the
examination of language.
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