Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions
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1. Verfasser: Bahun, Sanja (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Farnham Ashgate Pub. 2012
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Beschreibung:Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Editors; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Introducing, Intervening, and Introspecting; PART I Revisiting; 1 The Politics of Madness: Kierkegaard's Anthropology Revisited; 2 Stylistic Returns: Plato's and Nietzsche's Theories of Language; 3 Ideology in Light of the Theory of Meaning; 4 Rhetoric, Agitation and Propaganda: Reflections on the Discourse of Democracy (with Some Lessons from Early Soviet Russia); 5 Hostility, Politics, Brotherhood: Abel and Cain as Seen by Carl Schmitt and Jacques Derrida
6 Mimes and Phantoms: Helen Keller Writing the BodyPART II In the World, Prospecting; 7 The Fetish of Verbal Inflection: Lusophonic Fantasies and Ideologies of Linguistic and Racial Purity in Postcolonial East Timor; 8 Variegated Visions of Humanity: The Ambiguous Legacy of the Law of Peoples; 9 Body, Discourse, and the Turn to Matter; 10 Cosmopolitanism: Legitimation, Opposition and Domains of Articulation; 11 "I Insist on the Christian Dimension": On Forgiveness ... and the Outside of the Human; Afterword: Language, Discourse, and Rhetoric; Index
Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions redefines the critical picture of language as a system of signs and ideological tropes inextricably linked to human existence. Offering reflections on the status, discursive possibilities, and political, ideological and practical uses of oral or written word in both contemporary society and the work of previous thinkers, this book traverses South African courts, British clinics, language schools in East Timor, prison cells, cinemas, literary criticism textbooks and philosophical treatises in order to forge a new, diversified perspective on l
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:269 pages
ISBN:9781409428350
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