Språkfilosofi

Detta är en nyöversättning (2021) av ett av de mest inflytelserika verken i modern filosofi. Filosofiska undersökningar ¿utkom postumt 1953, och är den viktigaste framställningen av Ludwig Wittgensteins sena filosofi, där han bland annat introduce...

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Ludwig Wittgensteins Tractatus hör till de mest gåtfulla verk som skrivits. Den har lockat människor både utanför och innanför filosofin att försöka tolka de ibland ganska dunkla raderna i denna klassiker. Trots att boken skrevs för snart hundra å...

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»Den här boken har jag skrivit för alla dem som kanske vill arbeta i en skrivgrupp men också för dem som rätt och slätt är intresserade av språkets förbindelse med erfarenhet och ett medvetet språkarbete. Det är ingen handbok. Snarare strävar jag ...

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Popular assumptions about gender and communication - famously summed up in the title of the massively influential 1992 bestseller Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus - can have unforeseen but far-reaching consequences in many spheres of life, ...

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'A book that calls us to witness our place in history' Sally Rooney An urgent and moving essay on the Palestinian struggle and the power of narrative from the Women's Prize shortlisted author of Enter Ghost. Award-winning author Isabella Hammad de...

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'One of the most important writers of the French Caribbean' Guardian Édouard Glissant's most celebrated, scintillating philosophical work - which sets out a new poetic vision for the world 'We cry our cry of poetry. Our boats are open, and we sail...

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"Det mesta är osagt är en underbar bok som berättar och funderar om människans språk på ett helt nytt sätt." Lärarnas Tidning "En bok som varje lärare i svenska, från högstadiet till högskolan och vuxenutbildningen borde ha glädje av." Svenska Dag...

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'Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive' Richard Dawkins 'Full of Fascinating details. A delight to read.' Tim Harford 'Highly original and convincing ... a delight to read!' - Daniel Everett What is language? Why do we have it? Why does that ...

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Walter Benjamin (1892?1840) var en djupt originell litteratur- och kulturkritiker. Han var forskare, översättare, samlare och flanör och skrev banbrytande texter om bland annat den moderna urbana tillvaron ("Paris ? 1800-talets huvudstad", ett tre...

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Lever människan lyckligare om hon slutar upp att bråka sin hjärna med åsikter om moral, religion, filosofi och psykologi, och i stället i all enkelhet går in för att leva utan fördomar och dogmer, låta praxis bestämmas av hjärtat och lämna grubble...

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Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, this profoundly original work explores the nature of physical suffering. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on tort...

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Popular assumptions about gender and communication - famously summed up in the title of the massively influential 1992 bestseller Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus - can have unforeseen but far-reaching consequences in many spheres of life, ...

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'Dazzling... Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese... Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations' - Independent 'A marvellously readable book.....

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This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a "five-pound note" with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and...

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Analytic philosophy is the leading form of philosophy in the English-speaking world. What explains its continued success? Christoph Schuringa argues that its enduring power can only be understood by examining its social history. Analytic philosoph...

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'A tour de force' Alice Roberts 'Wonderful ... A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language' Robin Dunbar The relationship between language, thought and culture is of concern to anyone with an int...

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Can humans and artificial intelligences share concepts and communicate? Making AI Intelligible shows that philosophical work on the metaphysics of meaning can help answer these questions. Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever use the externalist traditio...

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One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century 'The final philosopher to perform the most profound surgery on philosophy ... concise yet exceptionally clear' Ai Weiwei Widely regarded as one ...

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From the winds of Mars to a baby's first laugh, a prolific philosopher-composer reflects on the profound imperative of sound in everyday life. ¿ Experiencing Sound presents its subject as fundamental to all experience-sensation, perception, and un...

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A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of language. The Language Animal, Charles Taylor's 2016 account of human linguistic capacity, was a revelat...

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Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently? Are there future people, who have not yet been conceived? Questions like those raise deep issues about both the nature of being and its l...

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Paul Ricoeur is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time. In The Rule of Metaphor he seeks 'to show how language can extend itself to its very limits, forever discovering new resonances within itself'. Recognizing ...

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What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Theory of the Lyric reveals the limitations of these two conceptions of the lyric-the older Romantic model and the mod...

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Our ability to find meaning in things is one of the most important aspects of human life. But it is also one of the most mysterious. Where does meaning come from? What sorts of things have mean...

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100 years after Proust's death, In Search of Lost Time remains one of the greatest works in World Literature. At 3,000 pages, it can be intimidating to some. This short volume invites first-time readers and veterans alike to view the novel in a ne...

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This Very Short Introduction to psycholinguistics is an accessible and engaging description of how people use language. Talking and understanding language probably seem like simple and straight...

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This volume combines Rousseau's essay on the origin of diverse languages with Herder's essay on the genesis of the faculty of speech. Rousseau's essay is important to semiotics and critical theory, as it plays a central role in Jacques Derrida's b...

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