Critical Humanist Perspectives (eBook, ePUB)

The Integrational Turn in Philosophy of Language and Communication
Redaktion: Pablé, Adrian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is a collection of scholarly reflections on the theme of humanism from an integrational linguistic perspective. It studies humanist thought in relation to the philosophy of language and communication underpinning it, and the question whether being a 'humanist' binds one to a particular view of language. The contributions to this volume explore the question whether integrational linguistics, being informed by a non-mainstream semiology, offers a viable platform on which to discuss truth claims put forward by present-day humanists which seem to lie beyond the grasp of academic disciplines that do not operate on the basis of the scientific method.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317220923
• Artikelnr.: 48416916

Autorenporträt

Adrian Pablé is Associate Professor of English at the University of Hong Kong.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I
1 Introduction: humanism, existentialism and integrational semiology
(Adrian Pablé)
PART II Integrating humanism 2 Secular humanist discourses on rationality:
exploring questions in the philosophy of language and communication (Adrian
Pablé)
3 Bedrock concepts and integrational theory: selves, animals and legal
persons (Christopher Hutton)
4 The nature of language and the language of nature: Rabindranath Tagore's
Sabda Tattwo or The Essence of Words as an integrationist text (Rukmini
Bhaya Nair)
5 An integrationist perspective on African philosophy (Sinfree B. Makoni
and Cristine G. Severo)
PART III Integrating linguistics 6 Can integrational linguistics be
integrated with (critical) discourse analysis? (Michael Toolan)
7 Indeterminacy in sociolinguistic and integrationist theory (Jon Orman)
8 Towards human concepts of language meaning and text comprehension
(Charlotte Conrad)
PART IV Integrating systems and agency
9 The notion of an integrated system (Dorthe Duncker)
10 Humanist machines: an integrationist critique of mechanical models
(David Bade)
PART V Integrating freedom and creativity 11 Mr. Micawber anticipates
Feist : transformations of mental labour (Julian Warner)
12 Language and freedom vol 1: the abstract and the concrete (Peter E.
Jones)
13 Emotional labour and the neoliberal entrepreneurial self at work and in
the home: emotions as privatised individual capital or revolutionary social
praxis? (Paul J. Thibault)
PART VI Integrating humanist models of education 14 Freedom of speech in a
therapeutic age (Dennis Hayes)
15 'Crazy English' and individual English learners: an integrationist
critique of English education as a business in China (Feifei Zhou)
PART VII Discussion: integrationism, anti-humanism and the suprasubjective
(Paul Cobley)