Binding Words: Conscience And Rhetoric In Hobbes, Hegel, And Heidegger - Brossura

Feldman, Karen S.

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ISBN 10: 0810122812 ISBN 13: 9780810122819

Casa editrice: Northwestern Univ Pr, 2006

Riassunto

In a provactive work that brings new tools to the history of philosophy, Karen S. Feldman offers an elegant account of how philosophical language appears to produce the very thing it claims to describe. She demonstrates that conscience can only be described and understood through tropes and figures of langugae. If description in literal terms is impossible, as Binding Words convincingly argues, perhaps there is no such thing. But if the word "conscience" has no tangible referent, then how can conscience be constructed as binding? Does our conscience move us to do things, or is this yet another figure of speech?

Hobbes's Leviathan, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, and Heidegger's Being and Time dramatize conscience's relation to language and knowledge, morality and duty, and ontology. Feldman investigates how, within these works, conscience is described as binding upon us while at the same time asking how texts themselves may be read as binding. 

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Informazioni sull'autore

Karen S. Feldman is a lecturer in the departments of rhetoric and German at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Northwestern Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0810122812
• ISBN 13: 9780810122819
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 158
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile