The Present Personal : : Philosophy and the Hidden Face of Language /

The Present Personal : : Philosophy and the Hidden Face of Language / / Hagi Kenaan.

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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 lingu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Kenaan, Hagi,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 1 diagram
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Philosophy and the Personal
  • 1. Language and the Bell Jar
  • 2. The Limits of Language and the Dream of Transcendence
  • 3. Austin's Fireworks
  • 4. Personal Objects
  • 5. Language Unframed: Beauty as a Model
  • 6. Personal Time
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index

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