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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... defining but constituting things via words . We need at the outset to note the inconsistency of this position , at least with regard to what Saussure says about the definition of la langue . For if la langue is defined precisely as a ...
... defining but constituting things via words . We need at the outset to note the inconsistency of this position , at least with regard to what Saussure says about the definition of la langue . For if la langue is defined precisely as a ...
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... definition of the sign as expressive necessitates this answer . Its nonindicative function exempts it from point- ing to any intuitive object , since that is also , by definition , present to con- sciousness without mediation ...
... definition of the sign as expressive necessitates this answer . Its nonindicative function exempts it from point- ing to any intuitive object , since that is also , by definition , present to con- sciousness without mediation ...
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... definition , there can be nothing beyond this fab- ric of world and sign , this textile of the " text . " I shall ... definition constituted in lan- guage , and the referent , which is by ( Derridean ) definition part of the general text ...
... definition , there can be nothing beyond this fab- ric of world and sign , this textile of the " text . " I shall ... definition constituted in lan- guage , and the referent , which is by ( Derridean ) definition part of the general text ...
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