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Poetic interaction : language, freedom, reason / John McCumber.
LIBRA B824.4 .M38 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCumber, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberty.
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Language and logic.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 489 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989.
- Summary:
- This book treats six thinkers from two traditions in three ways, all to make one simple point: that language is oriented to freedom as inherently as it is to truth. I will argue, in fact, that freedom and truth are not only separate values served by speech, by that they are complementary; that language becomes, in certain senses, intrinsically emancipatory when truth claims are not made, and vice versa.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 463-477.
- ISBN:
- 0226557030 :
- OCLC:
- 18162646
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