<p>This book discusses both the philosophy of language and linguistic philosophy.</p>

Philosophy and the Nature of Language: (Longman Linguistics Library, No. 14)

Politics & Social Sciences

Cooper, David Edward

Philosophy

Praeger

This book discusses both the philosophy of language and linguistic philosophy.

Philosophy and the Nature of Language (Longman Linguistics Library; No. 14)

Longman Publishing Group

Metaphor (Aristotelian Society Series)

What do metaphors mean? Why do we use them so much? Do they have a special kind of truth? These are among the many questions that David Cooper discusses in his wide-ranging study of a subject of growing importance for philosophers and students of language and literature. The author argues that the notion of metaphorical meaning, semantic or pragmatic, is a misguided one and that metaphorical truth is of only limited use in the appraisal of metaphors. Rather the main function of metaphorical talk is a social one: the "cultivation of intimacy" among speakers. Irony, "dead"metaphor, icons and the idea that language is fundamentally metaphorical are among the topics discussed in an account which ranges from Aristotle to the present day, from the analytic philosophy of Davidson to the work of continental writers such as Derrida, Barthes, and Gadamer.

Metaphor (Aristotelian Society series)

Basil Blackwell

Utilizing recently published primary sources, David Cooper aims to provide an account of the mainstream movement of philosophical thought, reconstructed from the writings of Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and others. Existentialism is viewed as the attempt to overcome various forms of alienation: from the world, one another and oneself. The early chapters describe the existential phenomenolgy, on the basis of which the dualisms of Cartesian metaphysics are "dissolved". Discussions of the self and of others, and of Angst and absurdity, lead into chapters on existential freedom and the prospects for an existentialist ethic. Writers discussed include Husserl, Jaspers, Buber, Marcel and Ortega. The book is intended to be useful for courses in both "analytic" and "continental" philosophy.

Existentialism: A reconstruction

Blackwell

Authenticity and Learning: Nietzche's Educational Philosophy (Modern Revivals in Philosophy)

Gregg Revivals

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