Full Description
Michael Halewood uses ideas from analytic philosophy and continental philosophy as well as social theory to look at how language relates to the world, and the world to language. He addresses important questions such as whether words are able to capture the world (nouns); whether the properties of things, such as colours, are real (adjectives); and how we can think about the world as process (verbs). Primarily using the work of Alfred North Whitehead, but also incorporating the ideas of Gilles Deleuze, John Dewey and Luce Irigaray, he argues that viewing both the world and language as 'in process' can help reframe and move beyond some enduring problems and shed new light for future research.
Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Problem of Words and Things
Nouns, Names and Signs: From Frege to Saussure
Adjectives: The Properties of the World and the 'Bifurcation of Nature'
Verbs: Deleuze on Infinitives, Events and Process
Adverbs: Dewey on the Qualities of Existence
Prepositions: Whitehead on the Withness of the Body
Gender and Personal Pronouns: She, He, It and They
Tone, Force and Rhetoric: Capitalism, Theology and Grammar
Conclusion
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