The Company of Words: Hegel, Language, and Systematic Philosophy - Couverture souple

McCumber, John

 
9780810110823: The Company of Words: Hegel, Language, and Systematic Philosophy

Synopsis

In this provocative work, John McCumber asks us to understand Hegel's system as a new approach to linguistic communication. Hegel, he argues, is concerned with building community and mutual comprehension rather than with completing metaphysics or developing historical critique. According to McCumber's radial interpretation, Hegel constructs a complex ideal of how we should use certain words. This ideal philosophical vocabulary is flexible and open to revision, and is constructed according to principles available at all time and all places; it is responsive to, but not dictated by, the shared language of cultured discourse whose concepts it attempts to refine and universalize.

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À propos de l'auteur

John McCumber has taught at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research and is associate professor of philosophy at Northwstern University. He is the author of Poetic Interaction: Language, Freedom, Reason.

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ISBN 10 :  0810110555 ISBN 13 :  9780810110557
Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 1993
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