Signs, Intentionality, and Imaginability

Selected Papers
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-74125-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 375 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Semiotics, Signs of the Times

This book contains essays by Horst Ruthrof, tracing the author’s intellectual history from his encounter with literature to his critique of the philosophy of language. If you have ever felt that our linguistic and philosophical approaches to language lack an explanation of what renders it so powerful, you share the author’s motivation for writing these essays.

With tools from Locke, Kant, Peirce, and especially Husserl, the author redefines natural language as “a set of social instructions for schematically imagining, and acting in, a world” and gradually identifies what grants natural language its power: imaginability.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ruthrof, Horst

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Semiotik

Über Autor(innen)

Horst Ruthrof FAHA, Ph.D. (1969) Rhodes University, is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and English at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia. He has published over 100 articles and seven books in literary theory, semiotics, and the philosophy of language.