Philosophy of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense LiteratureRoutledge, 12 նոյ, 2012 թ. - 256 էջ 'Jean-Jacques Lecercle's remarkable Philosophy of Nonsense offers a sustained and important account of an area that is usually hastily dismissed. Using the resources of contemporary philosophy - notably Deleuze and Lyotard - he manages to bring out the importance of nonsense' - Andrew Benjamin, University of Warwick Why are we, and in particular why are philosophers and linguists, so fascinated with nonsense? Why do Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear appear in so many otherwise dull and dry academic books? This amusing, yet rigorous new book by Jean-Jacques Lecercle shows how the genre of nonsense was constructed and why it has proved so enduring and enlightening for linguistics and philosophy. |
From inside the book
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... language emerge, which are of the utmost interest to us. The detour through madness in which they engage for other reasons pays a dividend in terms not only of epiphanic revelation, but of truth as disclosure. There is intuition in ...
... language emerge, which are of the utmost interest to us. The detour through madness in which they engage for other reasons pays a dividend in terms not only of epiphanic revelation, but of truth as disclosure. There is intuition in ...
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... language, it imposes real constraints on the result of the interpretation, the constraints of language (that these effectively constrain is revealed by the temptation to cheat). This has two important consequences: (a)This device is ...
... language, it imposes real constraints on the result of the interpretation, the constraints of language (that these effectively constrain is revealed by the temptation to cheat). This has two important consequences: (a)This device is ...
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... language in the croaking offrogs). The proof of Ettelson's talent does not lie in the contents of his discovery, which are poor, but in the path he follows in ... language. PHILOSOPHY OF NONSENSE There is such a thing as an 15 INTRODUCTION.
... language in the croaking offrogs). The proof of Ettelson's talent does not lie in the contents of his discovery, which are poor, but in the path he follows in ... language. PHILOSOPHY OF NONSENSE There is such a thing as an 15 INTRODUCTION.
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... language. They provide the main constraint: Ettelson's interpretation, like all interpretations, merely ex-plicates the virtualities of meaning which language contains in its folds. What Ettelson discovers is invented in the ...
... language. They provide the main constraint: Ettelson's interpretation, like all interpretations, merely ex-plicates the virtualities of meaning which language contains in its folds. What Ettelson discovers is invented in the ...
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... language—this is where Ettelson makes a statement about the workings of language which is of the order of truth. We have reached the third and last stage, where the logophilist is not only intuitive, but also the possessor of knowledge ...
... language—this is where Ettelson makes a statement about the workings of language which is of the order of truth. We have reached the third and last stage, where the logophilist is not only intuitive, but also the possessor of knowledge ...
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1 THE LINGUISTICS OF NONSENSE | 27 |
2 THE PRAGMATICS OF NONSENSE | 69 |
3 NONSENSE AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE | 115 |
4 THE POLYPHONY OF NONSENSE | 165 |
CONCLUSION | 223 |
NOTES | 233 |
INDEX | 243 |
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