Showing papers on "Linguistic turn published in 2023"
TL;DR: In this paper , Jeffrey T. Nealon examines the nascence of performativity and its intersection with biopolitics and neoliberalism to predict not only the future of the performative, but also to imagine new avenues of criticism within the humanities.
Abstract: Jeffrey T. Nealon’s 'Fates of the Performative: From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism' crafts a history of performativity within contemporary theoretical thought. Through the structure of a genealogy, Nealon examines the nascence of performativity and its intersection with biopolitics and neoliberalism to predict not only the future of the performative, but also to imagine new avenues of criticism within the humanities.
TL;DR: The authors argued that the human life form and language can be an inextinguishable reservoir of what Horkheimer called "objective reason" and that paying attention to this inseparableness can enable us to engage in disclosing social critique (for example, regarding current debates about sustainability).
Abstract: abstract:Was there a linguistic turn in Frankfurt School Critical Theory before Habermas's communications-theoretic one? Might later Wittgenstein and the early Frankfurt School have adopted similar pictures of language? I propose that both questions should be answered affirmatively, focusing on Horkheimer's Eclipse of Reason. I argue that, thanks to the picture of language that Horkheimer and Adorno share with (later) Wittgenstein, we can reconstruct their theory in a way that renders it more defensible. Insofar as the human life form and language are inseparable, language can be an inextinguishable reservoir of what Horkheimer called "objective reason." Recognizing this allows us to answer Habermas's critique of Horkheimer and Adorno. Moreover, paying attention to this inseparableness can enable us to engage in disclosing social critique (for example, regarding current debates about sustainability).
01 Jan 2023
TL;DR: In the latter half of the 20th century, with the development of philosophy studies, western jurisprudence studies also witnessed the linguistic turn in its field as discussed by the authors , which led to a re-examination of language that was no longer treated as a tool but as a philosophical afterthought in relation to the human being.
Abstract: Law and language are closely related. In the latter half of twentieth century, with the development of philosophy studies, western jurisprudence studies also witnessed the linguistic turn in its field. A series of academic schools appeared consecutively, such as, the school of semantic analysis jurisprudence, the school of new rhetoric jurisprudence, the school of legal interpretation, the school of structural semiotic jurisprudence and so on. Their studies paradigms are of interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional nature and characteristics, which have been skeptical of the views of legal languages in traditional theory of jurisprudence. They attempted to deconstruct and redevelop the traditional views and brought forth the radical transformation for the development of the modern jurisprudence, embodying the trend of current academic studies in this field. The linguistic turn of jurisprudence represents the breakthrough and innovation in the paradigm of jurists’ theoretical studies, as it leads to a re-examination of language that was no longer treated as a tool but as a philosophical afterthought in relation to the human being. To conclude, these achievements in legal language studies are worthy of reference and assimilation for Chinese jurisprudence studies.