Language and Power: Bks. I & II
Language: English
Published by Humanities Press, 1992
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No jacket.Language and power presents a way of looking at reality as a matter of powered language. It is an original contribution to both philosophy and social theory, an analysis that should not only fundamentally alter their content but also affect how these subjects are taught in disciplines ranging from the political and social sciences, history, ethics, the theory of games, and countercultural studies to literary theory, language analysis, art criticism, and aesthetics.;Froman suggests that all that is known is known in language. Those who control language control what knowledge, meaning, and reality are taken to be, at least their legitimate, authorized versions that all members of a.
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- Title
- Language and Power: Bks. I & II
- Author
- Lewis A Froman
- Publisher
- Humanities Press
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0391037331
- ISBN 13
- 9780391037335
Book I of this first volume is an introduction to the nature of language, and serves as a point of departure for ideal that are further developed from book to book.
Book II focuses on the distinction between reality and irreality in representational language, with a particular emphasis on art as a kind of irreal language.
Language and Power is an original contribution to both philosophy and social theory, an analysis which fundamentally alters not only their content but also what they themselvese, as disciplines, are considered to be. This unique study will have a deep and lasting effect on how these subjects are taught in disciplines ranging from literary theory, language analysis, history, and philosophy, to the social sciences, art criticism, aesthetics and counter-cultural studies.
Book II focuses on the distinction between reality and irreality in representational language, with a particular emphasis on art as a kind of irreal language.
Language and Power is an original contribution to both philosophy and social theory, an analysis which fundamentally alters not only their content but also what they themselvese, as disciplines, are considered to be. This unique study will have a deep and lasting effect on how these subjects are taught in disciplines ranging from literary theory, language analysis, history, and philosophy, to the social sciences, art criticism, aesthetics and counter-cultural studies.
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