The Present Personal – Philosophy and the Hidden Face of Language - Image 1

£39.25

Columbia University Press The Present Personal – Philosophy and the Hidden Face of Language

Name: The Present Personal - Philosophy and the Hidden Face of Language
Brand: Columbia University Press
Price: 39.25 GBP
Availability: InStock

Language Study & Reference

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£39 today · previous high £39 · all-time low £38

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 55 days • 55 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 55 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £38 (42 days, 76.4%)

Price range: £38 - £39

Price levels: 2 different prices over 55 days

Description

Is philosophy deaf to the sound of the personal voice? While philosophy is experienced at admiring, resenting, celebrating, and, at times, renouncing language, philosophers have rarely succeeded in being intimate with it. Hagi Kenaan argues that philosophy's concern with abstract forms of linguistic meaning and the objective, propositional nature of language has obscured the singular human voice. In this strikingly original work Kenaan explores the ethical and philosophical implications of recognizing and responding to the individual presence in language. In pursuing the philosophical possibility of listening to language as the embodiment of the human voice, Kenaan explores the phenomenological notion of the "personal." He defines the personal as the irresolvable tension that exists between the public character of language, necessary for intelligibility, and the ways in which we, as individuals, remain riveted to our words in a contingently singular manner. The Present Personal fuses phenomenology and aesthetics and the traditions of Continental and Anglo-American philosophy, drawing on Wittgenstein, J. L. Austin, Kant, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger as well as literary works by Kafka, Kundera, and others. By asking new questions and charting fresh terrain, Kenaan does more than offer innovative investigations into the philosophy of language; The Present Personal, and its concern with the intimate and personal nature of language, uncovers the ethical depth of our experience with language. Kenaan begins with a discussion of Kierkegaard's existential critique of language and the ways in which the propositional structure of language does not allow the spoken to reflect the singularity of the self. He then compares two attempts to subvert the "hegemony of content": the pragmatic turn of J. L. Austin and the poetic path of Heidegger. Kenaan concludes by turning to Kant and discovering an analogy between the experience of meaning in language and the aesthetic experience of encountering beauty. Kenaan's reconceptualization of philosophy's approach to language frees the contingent singularity of language while, at the same time, permitting it to continue to dwell within the confines of content.

Product Specifications

Brand: Columbia University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0231133502
Category: Books > Subjects > Language Study & Reference
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 04 March 2005
Listed Since: 07 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Columbia University Press The Present Personal – Philosophy and the Hidden Face of Language

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language: Dwelling in Speech I (New Heidegger Research)

Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Language: Essays on Heidegger and Gadamer

Theory of Language and Mind

What is this thing called Philosophy of Language?

Postfoundational Phenomenology: Husserlian Reflections on Presence and Embodiment

Quine and Davidson on Language, Thought and Reality

Heidegger and the Human (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary: Language and Morality in J.L. Austin’s Philosophy (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy)

A Personalist Philosophy of History (Routledge Approaches to History)

Limits of Intelligibility: Issues from Kant and Wittgenstein

Language, Thought and Consciousness: An Essay In Philosophical Psychology

Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)

Dasein Disclosed: John Haugeland's Heidegger

Liminality and the Philosophy of Presence: A New Direction in Political Theory (Contemporary Liminality)

Rationality, Time, and Self

Phénoménologie transcendantale: Figures du transcendantal de Kant à Heidegger: 232 (Phaenomenologica, 232)

Heidegger's Poetic Projection of Being

The Cambridge Companion to Husserl (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

Philosophy and Kafka

Wittgenstein and Early Analytic Semantics: Toward a Phenomenology of Truth

Subjectivity and Subjectivisation: Linguistic Perspectives

Conscious Thinking and Cognitive Phenomenology

Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing: The Respiratory Primacy of Being (Routledge Critical Perspectives on Breath and Breathing)