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This book develops a contextualist view of identity, agency, and discursive practices.

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Author:   José Medina
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Edition:   Annotated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.345kg
ISBN:  

9780791469163

ISBN 10:   0791469166
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   01 June 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Contextualizing Meaning 1.1 The Indeterminacy of Meaning: ""Unnatural Doubts"" and ""Theoretical Diagnosis"" 1.2 Wittgenstein as a Theoretical Diagnostician: Overcoming the Temptations of Reification and Decontextualization 1.3 Contextual Determinacy: Wittgenstein and Dewey on Meaning and Agreement 1.4 Meaning in Context: Semantic Stability and Semantic Change 1.5 Sustaining Agreement in Action: Normalcy and Eccentricity 1.6 A View from Elsewhere 2. Contextualizing Identity 2.1 The Hegelian Connection: Identity, Difference, and Polyphony 2.1.a The Dialectics of Recognition 2.1.b To Be and Not to Be: This Mess Called My Identity 2.2 The Flourishing of Voices and Their Domestication 3. Contextualizing Agency 3.1 Fighting Philosophical Myths about Discursive Agency 3.2 On Having a Voice: Uncontrollability, Polyphony, and a Hybrid View of Agency and Responsibility 3.3 The Scandal of Our Agency: Agency without Sovereignty and the Possibility of Transgression 4. Speaking from Elsewhere: Silence, Exclusion, and Marginality 4.1 Contextualism and the Hermeneutics of Silence 4.2 Making Sense of Radical Silences and Exclusions: A Polyphonic Perspective 4.3 Spaces of Intelligibility and Marginality 4.4 Speaking from the Margins Notes References Index

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Jose Medina is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and the author of The Unity of Wittgenstein's Philosophy: Necessity, Intelligibility, and Normativity, also published by SUNY Press, and Language: Key Concepts in Philosophy, and the coeditor (with David Wood) of Truth: Engagements Across Philosophical Traditions.

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