Ken Hirschkop

Linguistic Turns, 1890-1950

Writing on Language as Social Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the many 'linguistic turns' pursued by European writers between 1890 and 1950, focusing on the links between language, politics, and philosophy. Exploring the work of Saussure, Russell, Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, and others, it provides a new account of the intellectual and cultural history of early twentieth-century Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780198745778
• ISBN-10: 019874577X
• Artikelnr.: 56146103

Autorenporträt

Ken Hirschkop is Associate Professor of English at the University of Waterloo.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface * 1: Introduction: Linguistic turns as social theory * Part I: Order * 2: 'Grammar can only be studied in the crowd': Reason
analogy
and the nature of social consent (Ferdinand de Saussure) * 3: The ship of logic on the high seas of discourse (Gottlob Frege
Bertrand Russell
Ludwig Wittgenstein
a little Gilbert Ryle) * 4: Saussure and the Soviets (Kartsevskii
G. O. Vinokur
Iakubinskii) * 5: On the diversity-and productivity-of language (M. M. Bakhtin
Walter Benjamin
Saussure) * Part II: Myth * 6: Do they believe in magic? The word as myth
name
and art (C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards
Frege
George Orwell
Bakhtin
Saussure) * 7: Myth you can believe in (Ernst Cassirer
Viktor Shklovskii
Velimir Khlebnikov
Roman Jakobson
Benjamin) * Excursus: Reversing out: Sorel's heroic myth
Gramsci's slow magic * 8: High anxiety
becalmed language
ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein
J. L. Austin) * Conclusion: Motorways and Cul-de-sacs: What the linguistic turns turned to