Invisible Language
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G. E. Moore
Husserl
Kant
Plato
William James
Wittgenstein
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- ISBN 9780739182864
- Weight: 503g
- Dimensions: 159 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 06 Mar 2014
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Invisible Language: Its Incalcuable Significance for Philosophy reveals that although the use of language is visible or audible, the medium employed boasts neither of these attributes. Garth L. Hallet suggests that from Plato until now, the intangibility of language has exercised a far more profound influence in philosophy than even Wittgenstein came close to demonstrating. Indeed, without that pervasive factor of language, the history of philosophy would have been undeniably different. Yet philosophy is, and can legitimately aspire to be, much more than a struggle between language and human comprehension of it. Ultimately, this book suggests that philosophy’s positive possibilities, so often obscured by linguistically-inattentive practice, reach as far as human thought can reach.
Garth L. Hallett is a Jesuit priest and longtime dean of the College of Philosophy and Letters at St. Louis University.
