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Language, Discourse and Culture: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives

 
Franson Manjali (Author)
Synopsis
Language, Discourse and Culture: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives includes 14 essays written over a period of seven years. The nature of their contents oscillates between the pedagogical and the critical. As their quite style migh suggest, these articles are not intended to be splashy interventions in the current intellectual scence. Nonetheless, the author's detailed knowledge of contemporary post-structural and postmodern modes of though is always in evidence. The essays seek to be effective philosophical responses to questions lingering at the interface of language and culture.

The running theme of the book is the aesthetic and ethical alterability of the discourse given to a self or to a community at any given historical moment. Our acts in the world are not subsequent to the construction of the logic or discourse that is given. Rather it is our acts of discourse that incessantly contiute our worlds, world other that what is given. Several chapters focus upon this transformative concern that pervades Derrida's deconstructive project.
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About the author

Franson Manjali

Franson Manjali teaches linguistics and semiotics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He translated from French Jean-Luc Nancy's Philosophicla Chronicles (2007). He has recently edited Post-Structuralism and Cultural Theory (2006) and Nietzsche: Philogist, Philosopher and Cultural Critic (2006). His major publications include Literature and Infinity (20010, Meaning, Culture and Cognition (2000) and Nuclear Semantics-Towards Theory of Relational Meaning (1991).

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Bibliographic information

Title Language, Discourse and Culture: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives
Format Softcover
Date published: 31.12.2008
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Anthem Press
Language: English
isbn 9781843317500
length viii+169p., 24cm.