Modernism and the Language of Philosophy

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-415-35379-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 474 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy

Modernism can be characterised by the acute attention it gives to language, to its potential and its limitations. Philosophers, artists and literary critics working in the first third of the twentieth century emphasized language’s creative potential, butalso stressed its inability to express meaning completely and accurately. In particular, modernists shared the belief that the kind of truth sub specie aeterni that was sought by philosophers was either meaningless or was more appropriately expressed by the arts – especially by literature and poetry. Modernism and the Language of Philosophy addresses the challenge this beliefpresented to philosophy, and argues that the modernist assumption rests upon a host of unacknowledged, repressed or denied dogmas or tacit images.
Drawing in particular upon the work of Michale Dummett and Jacques Derrida, this book explores anew solution to this crisis in philosophical language, and it is these two philosophers who drive the narrativeof the bookandoffer perspectivesthrough which both past and present day philosophers are examined.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matar, Anat

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: Two Genealogies of Modernism Part 1. Acting, Not Speaking: Three Moments of Modernism Part 2. Pre-Modernism: The Right Turn that Went Wrong Epilogue: Words and Dogmas Notes Bibliography Name Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anat Matar is a senior lecturer at Tel-Aviv University, Israel.