How did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone Geoffrey Halt Harpham provides a comprehensive survey and critique of the pervasive role of language in modern thought. He shows how thinkers in such diverse fields as philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology and literary theory have made progress by referring their most difficult theoretical problems to what they presumed were the facts of language.
How did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone Geoffrey Halt Harpham provides a comprehensive survey ...
How did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone Geoffrey Halt Harpham provides a comprehensive survey and critique of the pervasive role of language in modern thought. He shows how thinkers in such diverse fields as philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology and literary theory have made progress by referring their most difficult theoretical problems to what they presumed were the facts of language.
How did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone Geoffrey Halt Harpham provides a comprehensive survey ...
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Why are some critical texts more compelling, memorable, or engaging than others? Can criticism be judged as a discourse of description, explanation, and analysis alone, or do our evaluations reflect other kinds of investments in it? In this book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that the most powerful and effective criticism demands to be read as an expression of a distinctive sensibility, a way of being in the world; it demands, in other words, to be read as a discourse of character. Through a series of detailed and intimate intellectual portraits of leading critics--Elaine Scarry, Martha...
Why are some critical texts more compelling, memorable, or engaging than others? Can criticism be judged as a discourse of description, explanation, a...
Collection of essays on our contemporary tendency to revisit Enlightenment concerns and the ways attributes of the 'highest'--reason, ethics, high cultural aesthetics, even theory--have become implicated with and confused with the 'lowes
Collection of essays on our contemporary tendency to revisit Enlightenment concerns and the ways attributes of the 'highest'--reason, ethics, high cul...
In this bracing and original book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that today's humanities are an invention of the American academy in the years following World War II, when they were first conceived as an expression of American culture and an instrument of American national interests. The humanities portray a "dream of America" in two senses: they represent an aspiration of Americans since the first days of the Republic for a state so secure and prosperous that people could enjoy and appreciate culture for its own sake; and they embody in academic terms an idealized conception of the...
In this bracing and original book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that today's humanities are an invention of the American academy in the years follo...
What place do ethical concerns have in intellectual life today? Why do ethical issues so often intrude in discussions of literature, criticism, and culture? And why are ethical issues so often unresolved? In short, why does ethics seem to be both urgent and problematic? This book deals with these questions.
What place do ethical concerns have in intellectual life today? Why do ethical issues so often intrude in discussions of literature, criticism, and cu...
