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By: J. R. R. Tolkien
ISBN: 9780008131395
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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First ever critical study of Tolkiens little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martins Game of Thrones.
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By: J. R. R. Tolkien
ISBN: 9780008131418
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 9th July 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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First ever critical study of Tolkiens little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martins Game of Thrones.
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By: Bertrand Russell
ISBN: 9781849765305
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2017
Publisher: Tate Publishing
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`E: Erroneous: Capable of being proved true'; `J: Jolly: The downfall of our enemies'; `M: Mystery: What I understand and you don't' . . . Enter the delightful, satirical world of the Good Citizen, according to one of the best-known writers and philosophers of modern times.
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By: Dr Maria Balaska
ISBN: 9781350302938
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Daniel Tammet
ISBN: 9780340961315
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 23rd August 2018
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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From the bestselling author of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers, a delightful and eclectic exploration of language, and what it can teach us about ourselves and our lives.
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By: Roland Barthes
ISBN: 9780006861355
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1987
UK Publication Date: 13th September 1993
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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By: Colin McGinn
ISBN: 9780262036191
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Pithy, direct, and bold: essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics.
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By: Colin McGinn
ISBN: 9780262529822
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An introduction to philosophy of language through systematic and accessible explanations of ten classic texts by such thinkers as Frege, Kripke, Russell, and Putnam.
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By: Stephen Yablo
ISBN: 9780691144955
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the aboutness-features of particular mental states. Materialists sometimes claim to have grounded aboutness in natural regularities. Attempts have even been made, in library science and information theory, to o
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By: Cary Wolfe
ISBN: 9780816630196
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1998
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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This text investigates three strains of post-modern theory - pragmatism, systems theory and post-structuralism - and shows how each confronts the spectre of an "outside" not wholly constituted by discourses, language games and interpretive communities.
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By: Laurent Dubreuil
ISBN: 9781517905644
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Laurent Dubreuil
ISBN: 9781517905651
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Jeffrey T. Nealon
ISBN: 9781517910853
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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"A powerful new examination of the performative that asks "what's next" for this well-worn concept"--
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By: Hattiangodi
ISBN: 9780812690453
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2000
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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By: Nathaniel J.P. Barron
ISBN: 9798888903261
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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By: Delyth Morris
ISBN: 9780708315798
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2000
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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This is a detailed analysis of Welsh-language use, based on data collected in 1996. It is one of the first detailed empirical studies of a European minority language, and brings to the analysis an innovative and challenging blend of philosophy, sociolinguistics, history and economics.
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By: Vilm Flusser
ISBN: 9781517912932
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Scott Soames
ISBN: 9780691138664
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Presents the author's vision of philosophy of language. Explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, this book investigates foundational concepts - such as truth, reference, and meaning - that are central to the philosophy of language and important to philosophy as a whole.
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By: Juan Meneses
ISBN: 9781517906764
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Juan Meneses
ISBN: 9781517906757
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Michel Foucault
ISBN: 9780816683222
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Speech Begins after Death is a transcript of critic Claude Bonnefoys interview with Michel Foucault in which he reflects on his approach to the written word throughout his life, from his school days to his discovery of the pleasure of writing. Never before published in English, this is one of Foucaults most personal statements about his life and writing.
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By: Georgio Agamben
ISBN: 9780816620388
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1992
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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In this work, Agamben draws on philology, the psychoanalysis of toys, medieval physics and psychology, and contemporary linguistics and philosophy, in an attempt to reconfigure the epistemological foundation of Western culture. He dismisses the possibility of a metalanguage.
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By: George Albert Wells
ISBN: 9780812692396
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1994
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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Wells identifies influential mistakes about language embedded in the empiricist philosophical tradition of Locke, Russell and Ayer. He shows how these errors stimulated a religious backlash, in which faith became coupled with commonsense realism. He also covers behaviourism and magical thinking.
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By: Alain Badiou
ISBN: 9781844672240
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Verso Books
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Alan Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the linguistic turn in modern philosophy and anatomizes the antiphilosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
