Modernism and the Language of Philosophy

Modernism and the Language of Philosophy

Author: Anat Matar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-04-18

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1134260091

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With a unique approach to the 'linguistic turn' in twentieth-century philosophy, this fascinating work addresses both analytic and continental philosophy, therefore ensuring its appeal to scholars from both fields.


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Download or read book Modernism and the Language of Philosophy written by Anat Matar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a unique approach to the 'linguistic turn' in twentieth-century philosophy, this fascinating work addresses both analytic and continental philosophy, therefore ensuring its appeal to scholars from both fields.


Modernism and the Language of Philosophy

Modernism and the Language of Philosophy

Author: Anat Matar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-04-18

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1134260083

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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, but also 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 belief presented 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 a new solution to this crisis in philosophical language, and it is these two philosophers who drive the narrative of the book and offer perspectives through which both past and present day philosophers are examined.


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Download or read book Modernism and the Language of Philosophy written by Anat Matar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, but also 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 belief presented 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 a new solution to this crisis in philosophical language, and it is these two philosophers who drive the narrative of the book and offer perspectives through which both past and present day philosophers are examined.


Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism

Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism

Author: James McElvenny

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1474425046

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This book explores the influential currents in the philosophy of language and linguistics of the first half of the twentieth century, from the perspective of the English scholar C. K. Ogden (1889 - 1957). It reveals links between early analytic philosophy, semiotics and linguistics in a crucial period of their respective histories.


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Download or read book Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism written by James McElvenny and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the influential currents in the philosophy of language and linguistics of the first half of the twentieth century, from the perspective of the English scholar C. K. Ogden (1889 - 1957). It reveals links between early analytic philosophy, semiotics and linguistics in a crucial period of their respective histories.


Philosophy and Literary Modernism

Philosophy and Literary Modernism

Author: Robert P. McParland

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2018-10-01

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1527517845

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Philosophy and Literary Modernism probes the relationship of authors with the thought of their time. The authors studied here include Conrad, Eliot, Faulkner, Forster, Hemingway, Hesse, Kafka, Joyce, Lawrence, Williams, and Woolf, among others. Literary modernism engaged with explorations of literary form, language, ways of knowing the world, identity, commitment, chance, truth, and beauty. The book considers how writers participated in the intellectual spirit of their time and with the thought of philosophers like Henri Bergson, G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.


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Download or read book Philosophy and Literary Modernism written by Robert P. McParland and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy and Literary Modernism probes the relationship of authors with the thought of their time. The authors studied here include Conrad, Eliot, Faulkner, Forster, Hemingway, Hesse, Kafka, Joyce, Lawrence, Williams, and Woolf, among others. Literary modernism engaged with explorations of literary form, language, ways of knowing the world, identity, commitment, chance, truth, and beauty. The book considers how writers participated in the intellectual spirit of their time and with the thought of philosophers like Henri Bergson, G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.


Modernist Fiction and Vagueness

Modernist Fiction and Vagueness

Author: Megan Quigley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-02-02

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 110708959X

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Modernist Fiction and Vagueness examines the development of the modernist novel in relation to changing approaches to philosophy. It argues that the puzzle of vagueness challenged the great thinkers of the early twentieth century and led to dramatic changes in both fiction and philosophy. Building on recent interest in the connections among analytic philosophy, pragmatism, and modern literature, this book posits that literary vagueness should be read as a defining quality of modernist fiction.


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Download or read book Modernist Fiction and Vagueness written by Megan Quigley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernist Fiction and Vagueness examines the development of the modernist novel in relation to changing approaches to philosophy. It argues that the puzzle of vagueness challenged the great thinkers of the early twentieth century and led to dramatic changes in both fiction and philosophy. Building on recent interest in the connections among analytic philosophy, pragmatism, and modern literature, this book posits that literary vagueness should be read as a defining quality of modernist fiction.


Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: The art of vagueness; 2. The two pragmatisms and Henry James's criticism; 3. 'Guess my riddle': Watch and Ward; 4. The vengeance of the 'great vagueness': 'The Beast in the Jungle'; 5. The bad pragmatist: The Sacred Fount's narrator; 6. 'Vague values': Strether's dilemma in The Ambassadors; 7. Mush and the telescope; 8. Vagueness and vagabonds in 'Craftsmanship'; 9. Night and Day and the 'semi-transparent envelope'; 10. Jacob's shadow; 11. 'I begin to doubt the fixity of tables': solipsism and The Waves; 12. 'The study of languages': logical versus natural languages; 13. Wittgenstein the poet and Joyce the 'philosophist'; 14. Learning vague language: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; 15. Throwing away the ladder, losing the keys: Siopold and Boom in Ulysses; 16. Blasphemy and nonsense: Finnegans Wake in Basic; 17. Eliot's critical influence; 18. Eliot and Russell: 'wobbliness' and 'the scientific paradise'; 19. 'Fuzzy studies' and fuzzy fictions

Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: The art of vagueness; 2. The two pragmatisms and Henry James's criticism; 3. 'Guess my riddle': Watch and Ward; 4. The vengeance of the 'great vagueness': 'The Beast in the Jungle'; 5. The bad pragmatist: The Sacred Fount's narrator; 6. 'Vague values': Strether's dilemma in The Ambassadors; 7. Mush and the telescope; 8. Vagueness and vagabonds in 'Craftsmanship'; 9. Night and Day and the 'semi-transparent envelope'; 10. Jacob's shadow; 11. 'I begin to doubt the fixity of tables': solipsism and The Waves; 12. 'The study of languages': logical versus natural languages; 13. Wittgenstein the poet and Joyce the 'philosophist'; 14. Learning vague language: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; 15. Throwing away the ladder, losing the keys: Siopold and Boom in Ulysses; 16. Blasphemy and nonsense: Finnegans Wake in Basic; 17. Eliot's critical influence; 18. Eliot and Russell: 'wobbliness' and 'the scientific paradise'; 19. 'Fuzzy studies' and fuzzy fictions

Author: Megan Quigley

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781316204924

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"Modernist Fiction and Vagueness marries the artistic and philosophical versions of vagueness, linking the development of literary modernism to changes in philosophy. This book argues that the problem of vagueness - language's unavoidable imprecision - led to transformations in both fiction and philosophy in the early twentieth century. Both twentieth-century philosophers and their literary counterparts (including James, Eliot, Woolf, and Joyce) were fascinated by the vagueness of words and the dream of creating a perfectly precise language. Building on recent interest in the connections between analytic philosophy, pragmatism, and modern literature, Modernist Fiction and Vagueness demonstrates that vagueness should be read not as an artistic problem but as a defining quality of modernist fiction"--


Book Synopsis Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: The art of vagueness; 2. The two pragmatisms and Henry James's criticism; 3. 'Guess my riddle': Watch and Ward; 4. The vengeance of the 'great vagueness': 'The Beast in the Jungle'; 5. The bad pragmatist: The Sacred Fount's narrator; 6. 'Vague values': Strether's dilemma in The Ambassadors; 7. Mush and the telescope; 8. Vagueness and vagabonds in 'Craftsmanship'; 9. Night and Day and the 'semi-transparent envelope'; 10. Jacob's shadow; 11. 'I begin to doubt the fixity of tables': solipsism and The Waves; 12. 'The study of languages': logical versus natural languages; 13. Wittgenstein the poet and Joyce the 'philosophist'; 14. Learning vague language: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; 15. Throwing away the ladder, losing the keys: Siopold and Boom in Ulysses; 16. Blasphemy and nonsense: Finnegans Wake in Basic; 17. Eliot's critical influence; 18. Eliot and Russell: 'wobbliness' and 'the scientific paradise'; 19. 'Fuzzy studies' and fuzzy fictions by : Megan Quigley

Download or read book Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: The art of vagueness; 2. The two pragmatisms and Henry James's criticism; 3. 'Guess my riddle': Watch and Ward; 4. The vengeance of the 'great vagueness': 'The Beast in the Jungle'; 5. The bad pragmatist: The Sacred Fount's narrator; 6. 'Vague values': Strether's dilemma in The Ambassadors; 7. Mush and the telescope; 8. Vagueness and vagabonds in 'Craftsmanship'; 9. Night and Day and the 'semi-transparent envelope'; 10. Jacob's shadow; 11. 'I begin to doubt the fixity of tables': solipsism and The Waves; 12. 'The study of languages': logical versus natural languages; 13. Wittgenstein the poet and Joyce the 'philosophist'; 14. Learning vague language: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; 15. Throwing away the ladder, losing the keys: Siopold and Boom in Ulysses; 16. Blasphemy and nonsense: Finnegans Wake in Basic; 17. Eliot's critical influence; 18. Eliot and Russell: 'wobbliness' and 'the scientific paradise'; 19. 'Fuzzy studies' and fuzzy fictions written by Megan Quigley and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Modernist Fiction and Vagueness marries the artistic and philosophical versions of vagueness, linking the development of literary modernism to changes in philosophy. This book argues that the problem of vagueness - language's unavoidable imprecision - led to transformations in both fiction and philosophy in the early twentieth century. Both twentieth-century philosophers and their literary counterparts (including James, Eliot, Woolf, and Joyce) were fascinated by the vagueness of words and the dream of creating a perfectly precise language. Building on recent interest in the connections between analytic philosophy, pragmatism, and modern literature, Modernist Fiction and Vagueness demonstrates that vagueness should be read not as an artistic problem but as a defining quality of modernist fiction"--


Dialectic of the Ladder

Dialectic of the Ladder

Author: Ben Ware

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-08-27

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1472591410

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Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) remains one of the most enigmatic works of twentieth century thought. In this bold and original new study, Ben Ware argues that Wittgenstein's early masterpiece is neither an analytic treatise on language and logic, nor a quasi-mystical work seeking to communicate 'ineffable' truths. Instead, we come to understand the Tractatus by grasping it in a twofold sense: first, as a dialectical work which invites the reader to overcome certain 'illusions of thought'; and second as a modernist work whose anti-philosophical ambition is intimately tied to its radical aesthetic character. By placing the Tractatus in the force field of modernism, Dialectic of the Ladder clears the ground for a new and challenging exploration of the work's ethical dimension. It also casts new light upon the cultural, aesthetic and political significances of Wittgenstein's writing, revealing hitherto unacknowledged affinities with a host of philosophical and literary authors, including Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Adorno, Benjamin, and Kafka.


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Download or read book Dialectic of the Ladder written by Ben Ware and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) remains one of the most enigmatic works of twentieth century thought. In this bold and original new study, Ben Ware argues that Wittgenstein's early masterpiece is neither an analytic treatise on language and logic, nor a quasi-mystical work seeking to communicate 'ineffable' truths. Instead, we come to understand the Tractatus by grasping it in a twofold sense: first, as a dialectical work which invites the reader to overcome certain 'illusions of thought'; and second as a modernist work whose anti-philosophical ambition is intimately tied to its radical aesthetic character. By placing the Tractatus in the force field of modernism, Dialectic of the Ladder clears the ground for a new and challenging exploration of the work's ethical dimension. It also casts new light upon the cultural, aesthetic and political significances of Wittgenstein's writing, revealing hitherto unacknowledged affinities with a host of philosophical and literary authors, including Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Adorno, Benjamin, and Kafka.


Modernism as a Philosophical Problem

Modernism as a Philosophical Problem

Author: Robert B. Pippin

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 1999-10-25

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780631214137

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Modernism as a Philosophical Problem, 2e presents a new interpretation of the negative and critical self-understanding characteristic of much European high culture since romanticism and especially since Nietzsche, and answers the question of why the issue of modernity became a philosophical problem in European tradition.


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Download or read book Modernism as a Philosophical Problem written by Robert B. Pippin and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1999-10-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernism as a Philosophical Problem, 2e presents a new interpretation of the negative and critical self-understanding characteristic of much European high culture since romanticism and especially since Nietzsche, and answers the question of why the issue of modernity became a philosophical problem in European tradition.


Philosophy Beside Itself

Philosophy Beside Itself

Author: Stephen W. Melville

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780719019203

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"Philosophy Beside Itself " was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The writings of French philosopher Jacques Derrida have been the single most powerful influence on critical theory and practice in the United States over the past decade. But with few exceptions American philosophers have taken little or no interest in Derrida's work, and the task of reception, translation, and commentary has been left to literary critics. As a result, Derrida has appeared as a figure already defined by essentially literary critical activities and interests. Stephen Melville's aim in "Philosophy Beside Itself " is to insist upon and clarify the distinctions between philosophy and criticism. He argues that until we grasp Derrida's philosophical project as such, we remain fundamentally unable to see his significance for criticism. In terms derived from Stanley Cavell's writings on modernism, Melville develops a case for Derrida as a modernist philosopher, working at once within and against that tradition and discipline. Melville first places Derrida in a Hegelian context, the structure of which he explores by examining the work of Heidegger, Lacan, and Bataille. With this foundation, he is able to reappraise the project of deconstructive criticism as developed in Paul de Man's "Blindness and Insight "and further articulated by other Yale critics. Central to this critique is the ambivalent relationship between deconstructive criticism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. Criticism--radical self-criticism--is a central means through which the difficult facts of human community come to recognition, and Melville argues for criticism as an activity intimately bound to the ways in which we do and do not belong in time and in community. Derrida's achievement has been to find a new and necessary way to assert that the task of philosophy is criticism; the task of literary criticism is to assume the burden of that achievement. Stephen Melville is an assistant professor of English at Syracuse University, and Donald Marshall is a professor of English at the University of Iowa.


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Download or read book Philosophy Beside Itself written by Stephen W. Melville and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Philosophy Beside Itself " was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The writings of French philosopher Jacques Derrida have been the single most powerful influence on critical theory and practice in the United States over the past decade. But with few exceptions American philosophers have taken little or no interest in Derrida's work, and the task of reception, translation, and commentary has been left to literary critics. As a result, Derrida has appeared as a figure already defined by essentially literary critical activities and interests. Stephen Melville's aim in "Philosophy Beside Itself " is to insist upon and clarify the distinctions between philosophy and criticism. He argues that until we grasp Derrida's philosophical project as such, we remain fundamentally unable to see his significance for criticism. In terms derived from Stanley Cavell's writings on modernism, Melville develops a case for Derrida as a modernist philosopher, working at once within and against that tradition and discipline. Melville first places Derrida in a Hegelian context, the structure of which he explores by examining the work of Heidegger, Lacan, and Bataille. With this foundation, he is able to reappraise the project of deconstructive criticism as developed in Paul de Man's "Blindness and Insight "and further articulated by other Yale critics. Central to this critique is the ambivalent relationship between deconstructive criticism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. Criticism--radical self-criticism--is a central means through which the difficult facts of human community come to recognition, and Melville argues for criticism as an activity intimately bound to the ways in which we do and do not belong in time and in community. Derrida's achievement has been to find a new and necessary way to assert that the task of philosophy is criticism; the task of literary criticism is to assume the burden of that achievement. Stephen Melville is an assistant professor of English at Syracuse University, and Donald Marshall is a professor of English at the University of Iowa.


The Decline of Modernism

The Decline of Modernism

Author: Peter Bürger

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9780271008905

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In this book, the author addresses the relationship between art and society, from the emergence of bourgeois culture in the eighteenth century to the decline of modernism in the twentieth century.


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Download or read book The Decline of Modernism written by Peter Bürger and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author addresses the relationship between art and society, from the emergence of bourgeois culture in the eighteenth century to the decline of modernism in the twentieth century.