The Prison-House of Language
01 Jan 2003-pp 17-25
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03 Jul 2003
TL;DR: In this article, the construction of modernity and its others in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century England is discussed. And the critical foundations of national epic: Hugh Blair, the Ossian controversy, and the rhetoric of authenticity.
Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. Making language safe for science and society: from Francis Bacon to John Lock 3. Antiquaries and philologists: the construction of modernity and its others in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England 4. The critical foundations of national epic: Hugh Blair, the Ossian controversy, and the rhetoric of authenticity 5. Johann Gottfried Herder: language reform, das Volk, and the patriarchal state in eighteenth-century Germany 6. The Brothers Grimm: scientizing, textual production in the service of romantic nationalism 7. Henry Rowe school craft and the making of an American textual tradition 8. The foundation of all future researches: Franz Boas, George Hunt, Native American texts and the construction of modernity 9. Conclusion.
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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In semiotics, denotation and connotation are terms describing the relationship between the signifier and its signified, and an analytic distinction is made between two types of signifieds: a denotative signified and a connotative signifier as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Beyond its 'literal' meaning (its denotation), a particular word may have connotations: for instance, sexual connotations. 'Is there any such thing as a single entendre?' quipped the comic actor Kenneth Williams (we all know that 'a thing is a phallic symbol if it's longer than it's wide', as the singer Melanie put it). In semiotics, denotation and connotation are terms describing the relationship between the signifier and its signified, and an analytic distinction is made between two types of signifieds: a denotative signified and a connotative signified. Meaning includes both denotation and connotation.
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17 Sep 2009TL;DR: In this paper, a critical taxonomy of the self and its relation to memory, agency, and the self is presented, together with a history, public reason, and political legitimacy.
Abstract: 1. Introduction Part I. Selves: 2. The social conception of the self: a critical taxonomy 3. The post-modern subject 4. The narrative self 5. Memory, agency, and the self Part II. Autonomy: 6. Political persons 7. The historical conception of autonomy 8. Relational autonomy 9. The dynamics of social identities Part III. Justice: 10. Justice over time: history, public reason, and political legitimacy Bibliography.
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TL;DR: The relationship between accounting, writing and money has been examined in the context of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt as discussed by the authors, with accounting itself being a supplement to prior ways of numbering and valuing, and so accounting is part of a play of supplements.
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01 Apr 2020TL;DR: German Aesthetics in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: 1. German aesthetics between the wars: Lukacs and Heidegger 2. In the wake of Schelling 3. The high tide of idealism 4. The second wave as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Volume 1: 1. Prologue Part I. Aesthetics in Britain, 1725-1800: 2. Hutcheson to Hume 3. Hogarth, Burke, and Gerard 4. From Kames to Alison and Stewart Part II. French Aesthetics in Mid-Century: 5. Andre to Rousseau Part III. German Aesthetics between Wolff and Kant: 6. The first generation of Wolffian aesthetics 7. German aesthetics at mid-century 8. Coming closer to Kant Part IV. Kant and After: 9. Kant 10. After Kant. Volume 2: Part I. German Aesthetics in the First Half of the Nineteenth-Century: 1. Early Romanticism and idealism 2. In the shadow of Schelling 3. The high tide of idealism 4. In the wake of Hegel Part II. (Mostly) British Aesthetics in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: 5. Ruskin 6. Aestheticism 7. Bosanquet and Tolstoy Part III. German Aesthetics in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: 8. In the shadow of Schopenhauer 9. Neo-Kantian aesthetics 10. Psychological aesthetics: play and empathy. Volume 3: Part I. German Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century: 1. German aesthetics between the wars: Lukacs and Heidegger 2. German aesthetics after World War II Part II. Aesthetics in Britain until World War II: 3. Bloomsbury, Croce, and Bullough 4. First responses to Croce 5. Collingwood Part III. American Aesthetics in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: 6. Santayana 7. The American reception of expression theory I: Parker to Greene 8. Dewey 9. The American reception of expression theory II: Cassirer and Langer 10. After Dewey and Cassirer Part IV. Wittgenstein and After: Anglo-American Aesthetics in the Second Part of the Twentieth Century: 11. Wittgenstein 12. The first wave 13. The second wave.
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03 Jul 2003
TL;DR: In this article, the construction of modernity and its others in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century England is discussed. And the critical foundations of national epic: Hugh Blair, the Ossian controversy, and the rhetoric of authenticity.
Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. Making language safe for science and society: from Francis Bacon to John Lock 3. Antiquaries and philologists: the construction of modernity and its others in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England 4. The critical foundations of national epic: Hugh Blair, the Ossian controversy, and the rhetoric of authenticity 5. Johann Gottfried Herder: language reform, das Volk, and the patriarchal state in eighteenth-century Germany 6. The Brothers Grimm: scientizing, textual production in the service of romantic nationalism 7. Henry Rowe school craft and the making of an American textual tradition 8. The foundation of all future researches: Franz Boas, George Hunt, Native American texts and the construction of modernity 9. Conclusion.
786Â citations
01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In semiotics, denotation and connotation are terms describing the relationship between the signifier and its signified, and an analytic distinction is made between two types of signifieds: a denotative signified and a connotative signifier as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Beyond its 'literal' meaning (its denotation), a particular word may have connotations: for instance, sexual connotations. 'Is there any such thing as a single entendre?' quipped the comic actor Kenneth Williams (we all know that 'a thing is a phallic symbol if it's longer than it's wide', as the singer Melanie put it). In semiotics, denotation and connotation are terms describing the relationship between the signifier and its signified, and an analytic distinction is made between two types of signifieds: a denotative signified and a connotative signified. Meaning includes both denotation and connotation.
409Â citations
Book•
17 Sep 2009TL;DR: In this paper, a critical taxonomy of the self and its relation to memory, agency, and the self is presented, together with a history, public reason, and political legitimacy.
Abstract: 1. Introduction Part I. Selves: 2. The social conception of the self: a critical taxonomy 3. The post-modern subject 4. The narrative self 5. Memory, agency, and the self Part II. Autonomy: 6. Political persons 7. The historical conception of autonomy 8. Relational autonomy 9. The dynamics of social identities Part III. Justice: 10. Justice over time: history, public reason, and political legitimacy Bibliography.
158Â citations
TL;DR: The relationship between accounting, writing and money has been examined in the context of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt as discussed by the authors, with accounting itself being a supplement to prior ways of numbering and valuing, and so accounting is part of a play of supplements.
98Â citations
Book•
01 Apr 2020TL;DR: German Aesthetics in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: 1. German aesthetics between the wars: Lukacs and Heidegger 2. In the wake of Schelling 3. The high tide of idealism 4. The second wave as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Volume 1: 1. Prologue Part I. Aesthetics in Britain, 1725-1800: 2. Hutcheson to Hume 3. Hogarth, Burke, and Gerard 4. From Kames to Alison and Stewart Part II. French Aesthetics in Mid-Century: 5. Andre to Rousseau Part III. German Aesthetics between Wolff and Kant: 6. The first generation of Wolffian aesthetics 7. German aesthetics at mid-century 8. Coming closer to Kant Part IV. Kant and After: 9. Kant 10. After Kant. Volume 2: Part I. German Aesthetics in the First Half of the Nineteenth-Century: 1. Early Romanticism and idealism 2. In the shadow of Schelling 3. The high tide of idealism 4. In the wake of Hegel Part II. (Mostly) British Aesthetics in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: 5. Ruskin 6. Aestheticism 7. Bosanquet and Tolstoy Part III. German Aesthetics in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: 8. In the shadow of Schopenhauer 9. Neo-Kantian aesthetics 10. Psychological aesthetics: play and empathy. Volume 3: Part I. German Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century: 1. German aesthetics between the wars: Lukacs and Heidegger 2. German aesthetics after World War II Part II. Aesthetics in Britain until World War II: 3. Bloomsbury, Croce, and Bullough 4. First responses to Croce 5. Collingwood Part III. American Aesthetics in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: 6. Santayana 7. The American reception of expression theory I: Parker to Greene 8. Dewey 9. The American reception of expression theory II: Cassirer and Langer 10. After Dewey and Cassirer Part IV. Wittgenstein and After: Anglo-American Aesthetics in the Second Part of the Twentieth Century: 11. Wittgenstein 12. The first wave 13. The second wave.
87Â citations