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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Linguistic Turn"”.
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Iris Murdoch's genealogy of the modern self : retrieving consciousness beyond the linguistic turn.
… traditions. Whether effaced by totalizing linguistic structures or identified with an empty choosing will, Murdoch argues that the forces present within her philosophical context are fundamentally hostile to an adequate conception of consciousness. Her genealogical project attempts to …
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Saving reason : Jurgen Habermas's synthesis of western philosophy.
… integrates philosophical hermeneutics and the Linguistic Turn, while using Pragmatism to avoid the Postmodern danger of relativism. The Enlightenment philosophy of the subject as developed from Descartes through Hegel entails aporias of subjectivism. The hermeneutic turn in philosophy reduced …
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Recovering Richard Rorty's Sense of Experience
… of the concept of experience following the linguistic turn. I challenge Rortys belief that all appeals to experience imply foundationalism and that we should focus only on language. In developing a non-foundational account of experience I emphasize the qualities of action and meliorism that …
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ALT-RIGHT OF THE_DONALD AND AUTHORITARIAN COMMUNISTS ON REDDIT: INTERNET MEMES TO BUILD COMMUNITY
… within psychoanalysis, a dramatic linguistic turn, and the development of a politics of desire.</p>
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Die Meistererzählung. Theorie und Praxis in Synthesen zur deutschen Geschichte am Beispiel von Hans-Ulrich Wehler und Thomas Nipperdey
… der geschichtstheoretischen Kontroversen um den „linguistic turn“, die die konstruktivistische und Machteffekte zeitigende Dimension von Sprache offenlegten, werden zunehmend Historiker samt ihrer Deutungsmuster über die Vergangenheit selbst zum Gegenstand der Geschichtswissenschaft. So schrieb …
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A critical analysis of William Alston's view of religious language, with a comparison with classical and modern Islamic theories
… century is considered to be the century of the linguistic turn. Because of the close relation between philosophy and religion, this recent philosophical interest in language has had a great effect on the understanding of religious language. The present work concentrates on two controversial …
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Soundpainting as a system for the collaborative creation of music in performance
… is to describe Soundpainting in relation to the linguistic turn in Thompson's own definition. This opens the way to a sociosemiotic analysis, in which it is susceptible to examination in the light of some theories of language that have emerged in the course of the twentieth century. A theoretical …
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The Language of British Electoral Politics 1880-1910
… has arisen from the impact of the postmodernist 'linguistic turn'. Namely, how can historians of political language combine close readings of speeches and writings with a wider explanatory ambition, and assess power, scope, and typicality in wider discourses of billions of words? The dissertation …
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Sprache als Be-wëgen: The Unfolding of Language and Being in Heidegger's Later Work, 1949-1976
… nor incomprehensible Heidegger's; unique linguistic turn negotiates the inadequacies of modern conceptions of the subject, object and cognition. Through a careful reading of Heidegger's work from 1949-1976, I trace Heidegger's utter reliance upon language as the way-making of Being, …
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The construction and use of gender in the pamphlet literature of the English Civil War, 1642-1646
… the new cultural history, gender studies and the linguistic turn in bringing the gendered language of the wartime tracts to academic attention. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in the print culture of the Civil Wars. In particular, the pioneering work of David Underdown has led other …
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'The Doors of Perception': Science, Religion, and Literature in Britain's Long-Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914
… scenario or scenarios. In accordance with the Linguistic Turn, these thought experiments can be viewed as linguistic constructs, where language itself is held to construct the outcomes of these thought experiments. Yet at the same time, language is limited in how can describe the world; from …
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Richard Rorty's pragmatism : implications for argumentation theory.
… dated, having lived before the time when the "linguistic turn" in philosophy flourished and worked through its assumptions. Chapter 3 summarizes the pertinent aspects of Rorty's philosophy. Rorty's positions are that no truth can be known to us except through language, and language necessarily …
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CON VOCE OPACA. STORIOGRAFIA E PLURALISMO DEL DIBATTITO PUBBLICO A PARTIRE DALLA 'QUERELLE' TRA HAYDEN WHITE E CARLO GINZBURG
Con l’intento di meglio definire le continuità e differenze che intercorrono tra il «desiderio di verità» della ricerca storica e la molteplicità delle narrazioni memoriali che animano il dibattito pubblico, la tesi s’interrogherà sul valore ideologico delle rappresentazioni storiche prodotte …
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Forme, présence, émotion : éléments pour une approche affective du passé
El giro lingüístico tuvo como consecuencia, en el campo de la filosofía de la historia, un creciente interés por la dimensión narrativa de la disciplina. La publicación de Metahistoria de Hayden White en 1973 marcó un punto de inflexión decisivo, en la medida en que la obra reivindica el carácter …