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Author Norris, Christopher, 1947-

Title The deconstructive turn : essays in the rhetoric ofphilosophy / Christopher Norris
Published London ; New York : Methuen, 1984
©1983

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Description 201 pages ; 22 cm
Series UP ; 844
University paperbacks ; 844
Contents Deconstruction and 'ordinary language'; speech versus writing in the text of philosophy -- The insistence of the letter: textuality and metaphor in Wittgenstein's later philosophy -- 'That the truest philosophy is the most feigning': Austin on the margins of literature -- Fictions of authority: narrative and viewpoint in Kierkegaard's writing -- Image and parable: readings of Walter Benjamin -- Forked paths to Xanadu: parables of reading in livingston lowes -- Deconstruction, naming and necessity: some logical options -- Methodoligical postscript: deconstruction versus interpretation?
Summary What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the powerful techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current deconstructionist literary critics? This book is the first to explore such questions in the context of modern analytic and linguistic philosophy. In doing so it opens up a new and challenging dimension of inter-disciplinary study
Analysis 11030 philosophy linguistic
Analysis (Philosophy)
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Bibliography page[179)%-192
Notes Also issued online
Subject Analysis (Philosophy)
Deconstruction.
Philosophy -- Language.
Philosophy, Modern.
Philosophy.
Rhetoric.
LC no. 83022141
ISBN 0416361404 (paperback)
Other Titles Rhetoric of philosophy
Rhetoric of philosophy