Contingency of Theory Pragmatism, Expressivism, and Deconstruction

Name: Contingency of Theory Pragmatism, Expressivism, and Deconstruction
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ISBN: 9780300057980

ISBN-10: 0300057989

ISBN-13: 9780300057980

Edition: 1994

Authors: Gary Wihl

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Pragmatists embrace the concept of textuality, but do not concede that textuality changes anything about how we interpret literature in specific social contexts. This book argues that theories of textuality contain an important expressivist philosophy of language overlooked by pragmatists.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 3/23/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 230
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Philosophies of Language without Foundations


Pragmatism, Expressivism, and Deconstruction


Beyond Relativism and Holism


Charles Taylor on Situatedness, Incommensurability, and Symbolic Language


Stanley Cavell and the Decision to Mean What We Say


Plural Theories of Literary Texts


Determining a Literary Text


A Dialogue between Common Attitudes and Private Romances: Cavell and Empson on Othello


Stanley Fish and Coriolanus: The Force of the Interpretive Community


Fredric Jameson's Dialectical Semiotics


Paul de Man on the Hegelian Sublime


Afterword


Notes


Index