| Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
1017309
|
| Doc. No
|
:
|
b771679
|
| Main Entry
|
:
|
Kenaan, Hagi.
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
The present personal : : philosophy and the hidden face of language /\ Hagi Kenaan.
|
| Publication Statement
|
:
|
New York :: Columbia University Press,, ©2005.
|
| Page. NO
|
:
|
1 online resource (xi, 199 pages)
|
| ISBN
|
:
|
0231508271
|
|
|
:
|
: 9780231508278
|
|
|
:
|
0231133502
|
|
|
:
|
9780231133500
|
| Bibliographies/Indexes
|
:
|
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and index.
|
| Contents
|
:
|
Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Philosophy and the Personal; Chapter 1. Language and the Bell Jar; 1. A Picture Held Us Captive; 2. The Frame of Language; 3. The Fact of the Propositional; 4. "This Is How Things Are"; 5. The Bell Jar; Chapter 2. The Limits of Language and the Dream of Transcendence; 1. Philosophy and Disappointment; 2. Language: The Map; 3. Language and Silence: The Example of Abraham; 4. The Limits of Language and the Question of Freedom; 5. Before the Law of Language; 6. From Disappointment to Philosophy.
|
|
|
:
|
4. The Phenomenality of Your WordsChapter 6. Personal Time; 1. Time Is Past; 2. Time, Language, and Possibility; 3. Time Prefaced; 4. Perhaps Present; 5. In My End Is My Beginning; Epilogue; Notes; Index.
|
|
|
:
|
Chapter 3. Austin's Fireworks1. Austin's Fireworks: The Promise of the Pragmatic Turn; 2. How to Do Things with Austin; 3. The Act of Speech; 4. The Pragmatic and the Personal; 5. The Mirror at Hand: Afterthoughts; Chapter 4. Personal Objects; 1. Heidegger (Before) and (After) Austin; 2. Heidegger's Pragmatic Interpretation of the Ordinary; 3. The Prison of the Ordinary; 4. The Aesthetic Elision of the Personal; 5. Van Gogh's Shoes; 6. Sabina's Hat; Chapter 5. Language Unframed: Beauty as a Model; 1. It's Funny; 2. Aesthetic Judgment; 3. The Language of Taste.
|
| Abstract
|
:
|
Is philosophy deaf to the sound of the personal voice? While philosophy is experienced at admiring, resenting, celebrating, and, at times, renouncing language, philosophers have rarely succeeded in being intimate with it. Hagi Kenaan argues that philosophy's concern with abstract forms of linguistic meaning and the objective, propositional nature of language has obscured the singular human voice. In this strikingly original work Kenaan explores the ethical and philosophical implications of recognizing and responding to the individual presence in language. In pursuing the philosop.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Language and languages-- Philosophy.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Language and languages-- Philosophy.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Communication Studies.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- General.
|
| Dewey Classification
|
:
|
302.2/24/01
|
| LC Classification
|
:
|
P107.K46 2005eb
|