Book of Addresses

by Peggy Kamuf

Book Overview

This book consists of a series of essays that all turn around questions of the address of speech or writing. They argue and demonstrate that meaning is not just a matter of the active intention of a subject (for example, speaker, writer, or other signatory of a meaningful act) but also of its reception at another's address. The book's main concern is therefore with a theory of meaning and of action that is not centered on the intentional, self-conscious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804750599
• ISBN13: 9780804750592
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"