Literature and the Touch of the RealUniversity of Delaware Press, 2004 - 262 pàgines Literature and the Touch of the Real offers a critique of neo-Saussurean theories of the constitution of the world through language or the essential divorce of language from the real. It does this by, first, offering a critical account of the contradictions and omissions of Saussure's Course in General Linguistics. Secondly, in a revisionist reading of Jacques Derrida, it argues that far from reducing reality to language, Derrida's concept of the text in fact argues that the world cannot be eradicated from the linguistic. Thirdly, it offers an account of Ludwig Wittgenstein's concepts of grammar, criteria, aspect perception, and language-games that reintegrates language and the world while avoiding the instrumentalist pitfalls of realism and empiricism. |
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... Saussure's actual definition of a nomenclature includes nothing about ideas : a nomenclature is simply said to be a set of correspondences between things and names . This is a telling elision . A theory that is supposed to consider ...
... Saussure's actual definition of a nomenclature includes nothing about ideas : a nomenclature is simply said to be a set of correspondences between things and names . This is a telling elision . A theory that is supposed to consider ...
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... Saussure's name , with the referent . There is something fundamentally problematic about seeing signifieds as “ things ” that belong to some realm “ beyond " the signifier . " 1 Despite Saussure's lapses into dualist ways of speaking ...
... Saussure's name , with the referent . There is something fundamentally problematic about seeing signifieds as “ things ” that belong to some realm “ beyond " the signifier . " 1 Despite Saussure's lapses into dualist ways of speaking ...
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... Saussure is thus not only an ideal theory with all its textual in- consistencies removed ; it is also paradoxically post - Saussurean . 4 It is enough for my general argument , however , that Thibault's Saussure is not the structuralist ...
... Saussure is thus not only an ideal theory with all its textual in- consistencies removed ; it is also paradoxically post - Saussurean . 4 It is enough for my general argument , however , that Thibault's Saussure is not the structuralist ...
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