Dynamics of the Language (2 Vols-Set) (Philosophy of the World of Words)

Contents: Volume I: Introduction. Section I: A Critique of Philosophy, Language, Reality and Knowledge. 1. Understanding Philosophy and Its Practical Utility. 2. A Discussion on Language Is Thought: Difference and Non-difference Controversy. 3. Language, Being and Cognition: A Cognitive Perspective. 4. The Concept of Reality: An Argument about It as an Intelligible Being. 5. Understanding Language and Culture. 6. Cognition and a Critique of Epistemology. 7. Language and Possibility of Disinterested and Interested Knowledge. 8. Resolving Philosophical Dichotomies. Section II: Meaning Theories of the Heterodox Systems of Indian Philosophy, Russell’s Proposition, Linguistic Analysis of Wittgenstein and Cognitive Holism. 9. Indian Materialism (Carvaka) on Sabda as Authority: An Analysis of Tattvopaplavasimhah. 10. Jainas Theory of Language and Indescribability of Reality. 11. Apoha and the Meaning of Religious Ideas of Buddhism. 12. A Critique of Bertrand Russell’s Concept of Proposition: An Indian Perspective. 13. A Critique of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Linguistic Analysis: An Indian Perspective. 14. Analysing Language and Communication. 15. The Nature of Language and the Logic of Translation and Analysis. 16. Cognitive Holism: Cognitive Holistic Philosophy of Language and Its Practical Utility. Bibliography. Index. Volume II: Section III. Theories of Language, Verbal-Cognition, Expression and Interpretation. 1. Sphota Theory of Language: Dynamics of the Sphota. 2. Indivisibility Theory of Language. 3. Autonomy Theory of Language. 4. Concept of Sentence: The Expresser. 5. Theories of Verbal-cognition and the Sentential-meaning: Vakyartha-Bodha. 6. A Critique of the Meaning of Moral Language. 7. Meaning of Negative Expressions (Abhava): Philosophy of Being of Ontic Non-Being. 8. Text and Rules of Interpretation. Section IV: A Critique of the Word, the Word–Meanings and Relation. 9. Analysis of the Word and the Word-meanings. 10. A Critique of the Substance: The Meaning of the Word-meanings. 11. Critique of the Universal: The Meaning of the Word-meanings (Padartha). 12. Potency of the Language: Resolving the Controversy between Indian Schools of Philosophy and Rhetoricians. 13. Philosophy of Relation between Language and Meaning. 14. The Philosophy of Grammar. 15. Syntactic and Semantic Analysis: Cognitive Holistic Perspective. 16. Contextual Meaning: Intended and Non-intended Meaning Determination of Word-meaning. 17. Critical Estimate. Bibliography. Index. Philosophy in this set of two volumes is a cognitive activity par excellence. Cognition is that the language expresses and it reveals intelligible objects/beings of language and the meaning to which our philosophical reflections, investigations, analysis and interpretation are not only based on but are confined to. The work is fit for satisfying the intellectual hunger of those who are sick of reading the same metaphysical, ontological, theological and epistemological descriptions in different books of history of philosophy, Indian and Western, to those searching a philosophy free from our captive thinking and also an innovative vision to meet out the new challenges in philosophy. Concentrating on cognition as it flashes by language the book analyses, discusses, interprets and critically argues most of the philosophical issues and their responses by Indian and Western philosophical traditions well conclusively. Unlike linguistic and analytic philosophies, the book is a philosophy of language. Unlike meaning-centric philosophies popular in the East and West, the language-centric approach of the book is based on the expressive nature of language. Based on cognition as it flashes, on active theory of knowledge and action-oriented view of language and its meaning, it reflects on problems, doubts, paradoxes and queries for clarity and resolve, and on that basis, utility and future of philosophy as well. …