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Author:   Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9780415942188

ISBN 10:   0415942187
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   06 September 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Chapter One: Language for Beginners 1. Turning (in)to Language 2. Saussure and the Concrete Object of Language 3. Metaphor and the Law of Return: Saussure, Derrida and Rorty 4.Language and Human Nature 5. Science and the Thought of Language Chapter Two: Ideology and the Form of Language 1. Ideology and History 2. Marxism and the Economic Specter 3. From Post-Modernism to Post-Marxism; or, It's Not the Economy, Stupid 4. Language and the Psycho-Ideological Subject 5. Inversions Chapter Three: Ethics and the Law of Language 1. Words as Guides: Modernity from Hume to Bernard Williams 2. Language as Law: On the Kantian Maxim The Irrational Law: Nietzsche, Levinas, Deconstruction Law and Language of the Unconcscious: Freud, Chomsky, Lacan 3. Words against War: The Dream of a Virtuous Language 4. Language Against the Law: Postmodernism, Feminism, and the Fundamentals of Language 5. Coda: On Culture In Conclusion: Language and Humanity Works Cited

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"""Geoffrey Galt Harpham's new book is based on a simple insight, whose consequences have never before been so brilliantly drawn. Noting that there is no consensus about the meaning of Language as Such - indeed, that there is a bewildering variety of competing claims about its alleged essence - he challenges all of the philosophical, literary, and political efforts made to turn language into a foundational model for other aspects of the human condition. The rumbling you hear in the background as you read this remarkable book is the sound of a paradigm shifting."" - Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley"

Geoffrey Galt Harpham's new book is based on a simple insight, whose consequences have never before been so brilliantly drawn. Noting that there is no consensus about the meaning of Language as Such - indeed, that there is a bewildering variety of competing claims about its alleged essence - he challenges all of the philosophical, literary, and political efforts made to turn language into a foundational model for other aspects of the human condition. The rumbling you hear in the background as you read this remarkable book is the sound of a paradigm shifting. - Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley

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Geoffrey Galt Harpham is Professor of English at Tulane University. His many books include On the Grotesque, TheAscetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism, Getting ItRight: Language, Literature, and Ethics, One of Us: TheMastery of Joseph Conrad, and Shadows of Ethics:Criticism and the Just Society.

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