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A New Philosophy of Discourse: Language Unbound

A New Philosophy of Discourse: Language Unbound


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What would happen if structures, forms, and other stand-alone entities thought to comprise our intellectual toolkit—words, meanings, signs—were jettisoned? How would a work written in a purportedly dead language, like The Iliad, or penned in a foreign tongue be approached if deemed legible without structures such as meaning-bearing signs or grammatical rules? A New Philosophy of Discourse charts a novel course in response to these questions, coining an original concept of discourse, or talk!, that Joshua Kates presents as more fundamental than language. In Kates’ conception of discourse, writing and speech take shape entirely as events, situated within histories, contexts, and traditions themselves always in the making. Combining literary theory, literary criticism, and philosophy, to reveal a new perspective on discourse, Kates focuses on literary criticism, literary texts by Charles Bernstein and Stanley Elkin, and the philosophical writings of Stanley Cavell, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Donald Davidson and Martin Heidegger. This ground-breaking study bridges the analytical/continental divide, by working through concrete problems using novel and extended interpretations with wide-ranging implications for the humanities.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Preface: Theory’s Redux? Part I Discourse 1. Discourse in Contemporary Literary Studies (Limit Cases and Spectra) 2. Discourse as Literary Innovation (Charles Bernstein) 3. From Persons to Words: “I am Stanley Cavell” 4. Nothing is Metaphor 5. Yet “It’s Personal”: The Politics of Personhood (Martha Nussbaum, Cora Diamond, Stanley Elkin) Part II Discourse and Text 6. Can the Text be “Saved” in Discourse? (The Early Walter Michaels) 7. Why Language Can’t Help (Truth and Method) 8. Discourse (The Early Martin Heidegger) 9. Discourse and Text (Davidson and Heidegger) Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Joshua Kates is currently Professor of English, and Adjunct Professor, Germanic Studies, at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. He has published two books on Derrida’s early writings and their contexts.

Review :
Critical and provocative, Joshua Kates moves between the philosophy of language, hermeneutics, literary studies, and deconstruction. Offering a radical and innovative re-envisaging of our understanding of discourse and interpretation, relevant to work across the humanities and social sciences. An impressive engagement with fundamental problems of language and meaning. Arguing that the foundational use of language is talk, and that all types of discourse derive from talk in its historicity, Joshua Kates boldly explores a vast range of philosophical and literary interpretive frameworks to produce a surprising synthesis of Heidegger and Davidson.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781350186958
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 440 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1350186953
  • Publisher Date: 19 May 2022
  • Height: 232 mm
  • No of Pages: 232
  • Sub Title: Language Unbound
  • Width: 154 mm


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