Acknowledgements Preface: Theory’s Redux? Part I Discourse 1. Discourse in Contemporary Literary Studies (Limit Cases and Spectra) 2. Discourse as Literary Innovation (Charles Bernstein) 3. From Persons to Words: “I am Stanley Cavell” 4. Nothing is Metaphor 5. Yet “It’s Personal”: The Politics of Personhood (Martha Nussbaum, Cora Diamond, Stanley Elkin) Part II Discourse and Text 6. Can the Text be “Saved” in Discourse? (The Early Walter Michaels) 7. Why Language Can’t Help (Truth and Method) 8. Discourse (The Early Martin Heidegger) 9. Discourse and Text (Davidson and Heidegger) Selected Bibliography Index
Proposes a new understanding of language within the humanities, mounting a defence of rigorous humanistic inquiry to arrive at bold new forms of interpretation and understanding.
Joshua Kates is currently Professor of English, and Adjunct Professor, Germanic Studies, at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. He has published two books on Derrida’s early writings and their contexts.
Critical and provocative, Joshua Kates moves between the philosophy
of language, hermeneutics, literary studies, and deconstruction.
Offering a radical and innovative re-envisaging of our
understanding of discourse and interpretation, relevant to work
across the humanities and social sciences.
*Jeff Malpas, Emeritus Distinguished Professor, University of
Tasmania , Australia*
An impressive engagement with fundamental problems of language and
meaning. Arguing that the foundational use of language is talk, and
that all types of discourse derive from talk in its historicity,
Joshua Kates boldly explores a vast range of philosophical and
literary interpretive frameworks to produce a surprising synthesis
of Heidegger and Davidson.
*Jonathan Culler, Professor of Comparative Literature, Cornell
University, USA*
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