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This book charts the trajectory of Heideggers concept of silence by focusing on its relation to truth as the unconcealedness of being/beyng and language as disclosive sonorous saying. Wanda Torres Gregory concludes with critical reflections on the later Heidegger and proposes alternatives to his signature claims concerning silence.

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A must have for all those following the debate about language, instinct vs learned debate.

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A must have for all those following the debate about language, instinct vs learned debate.

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A guide to contemporary philosophy of language. It covers the fundamental questions asked by the philosophy of language. It explores issues pertaining to the nature of language, form semantics, theories of meaning, reference, intensional contexts, context-dependence, pragmatics, the normativity of language, analyticity, a priority and modality.

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An argument that what is usually dismissed as the mystical shell of Hegel's thoughtthe concept of absolute knowledgeis actually its most rational kernel.

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A thorough introduction to the language of surrealism by a leading authority in the field. The author draws on recent work in cognitive poetics and literary linguistics to re-evaluate surrealism in its own historical setting, analysing textual examples and situating them within a framework of the latest theories and stylistic methods.

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Discusses the relations between linguistic structures and the practice of philosophizingwith examples from across the worldand argues that the latter is always influenced by the former.

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A new edition of a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of language, substantially updated and reorganized.

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Pays close attention to the early work of the Royal Society and to the twentieth-century semantic crisis caused by attempting to integrate Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics. This lucidly written book will be of interest to all those engaged in linguistics, semiotics, philosophy of science and cultural studies.

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Pays close attention to the early work of the Royal Society and to the twentieth-century semantic crisis caused by attempting to integrate Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics. This lucidly written book will be of interest to all those engaged in linguistics, semiotics, philosophy of science and cultural studies.

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This work introduces the concept of the Voice of the Other and the intersubjective world it creates for humans. Even family and school relationships are structured in language and the social formations that language created in the past.

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This book explores the theory of value structure, or axiology, in metaethics and defends the thesis that aspects of better than comparisons may outrank each other and that value cannot always be summed up neatly.

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Bazzocchi disposes the text of the Tractatus in a user-friendly manner, exactly as Wittgenstein's decimals advise. This discloses the logical form of the book by distinct reading units, linked into a fashioned hierarchical tree. The text becomes much clearer and every reader can enjoy, finally, its formal and literary qualities.

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Emergent paradigms in the physical sciences are combined with deconstructionist methods and Vygotsky's theory of speech and thought to formulate new mind-sets for society and education, which will promote nonlinear, nonpatriarchal, nonviolent, anti-authoritarian worldviews on which to build stronger individuals and societies.

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This is the first comparative study of the pioneering work on language of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Hans-Georg Gadamer. The book focuses on how Wittgenstein and Gadamer treat language in their accounts of language as game and their major writings on the subject. Philosophical investigations and Truth and Method, respectively.

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These papers develop, in a critical spirit, themes in Wittgensteins treatment of mind and language. The approach is distinctive in giving central place to the individuals relations with others in a way that involves detailed attention to the human bodily form and to conversation, and a significant ethical dimension.