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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: José MedinaPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.463kg ISBN: 9780791469156ISBN 10: 0791469158 Pages: 246 Publication Date: 05 October 2006 Audience: Adult education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. 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"ReviewsMedina's book defends an original thesis, is extremely readable, and manages to interweave analytic philosophy of language, continental thought, postmodernism, and feminist philosophy with ease and elegance. This is a groundbreaking and genuinely novel contribution to an emerging school of Wittgenstein interpretation. It combines careful attention to the texts with deep and broad connections to issues of general interest as well as of much theoretical concern. This is a groundbreaking and genuinely novel contribution to an emerging school of Wittgenstein interpretation. It combines careful attention to the texts with deep and broad connections to issues of general interest as well as of much theoretical concern. """Medina's book defends an original thesis, is extremely readable, and manages to interweave analytic philosophy of language, continental thought, postmodernism, and feminist philosophy with ease and elegance."" ""This is a groundbreaking and genuinely novel contribution to an emerging school of Wittgenstein interpretation. It combines careful attention to the texts with deep and broad connections to issues of general interest as well as of much theoretical concern.""" Author InformationJose 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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