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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Ordinary Language Philosophy"”.
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Kenneth Burke's relation to modern thought and literature
… his distinctive contribution as a theorist of language and literature.</p> <p>Most of the substantial studies of Burke that we have, like William Rueckert’s excellent book, <em>Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relations</em>, are intrinsic in method. They explain Burke’s system from within, …
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Science, the Self, and Skepticism: Posthuman Fictions of Post-1960s France
… studies, actor-network theory). Inspired by ordinary language philosophy, it analyzes the relationship of these posthuman pictures of the self to what Stanley Cavell, following Ludwig Wittgenstein, calls skepticism: the desire, both natural and unnatural, to deny and transcend the human and …
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Political theology and the conflicts of democracy.
… and limits of creaturely sociality. Drawing on ordinary language philosophy, democratic theory, and grassroots democratic organizing, I propose a form of "agonistic community" centered on practices of conflict negotiation in coming to shared judgment and action. Finally, I conclude the …
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"Concept" and "Context": Toward modelling understanding in Physics Education research
… this thesis is grounded in Wittgensteinian ordinary language philosophy which maintains that notions of "concept", "context" and "understanding" obtain meaning not be referring to some transcendental "thing", but by being embedded in our messy form of life. In other words, by modelling …
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Ambiguity in the workplace: some aspects of the negotiation and structuration of asymmetrical relations
… and the relationships between hermeneutics, ordinary language philosophy, ethnomethodology and structuralism; and the development of poststructuralism, with the associated reconceptualisation of subjectobject relationships, reading, and deconstruction. The methodological argument is that …
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Around Talk: Affect, Triviality, and Possibility in Marcel Proust, Henry James, and Nella Larsen
… and implicit forms of thought and feeling: the ordinary language philosophy of Stanley Cavell, the weak affect theories of Silvan Tomkins and Eve Sedgwick, the suspensive intimacies of Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips. In a series of case studies from my three authors, the chapters of this thesis …
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Iphungwa Ngezithebe: Exploring Umaskandi in The Fourth Industrial Revolution Threats and Opportunities
The phenomenon of umaskandi, which was the adaptation and continuation of a deep-seated Indigenous Isizulu culture of music-making, has become a commodity over several decades and has been monetised. Social advancement has meant that cultural industries, such as umaskandi, could not resist …
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Racism and conceptual analysis: A defense of the Wittgensteinian approach
… Ludwig Wittgenstein’s grammatical approach to philosophy in the context of contemporary theories of racism. Grammatical analysis does not aim at theory-construction, but at conceptual clarity that is free from conceptual confusion. My aim is to dissolve conceptual confusion in contemporary …