Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language: Dwelling in Speech I

By Lawrence J. Hatab

Book Overview

How is it that sounds from the mouth or marks on a page--which by themselves are nothing like things or events in the world--can be world-disclosive in an automatic manner? In this fascinating and important book, Lawrence J. Hatab presents a new vocabulary for Heidegger's early phenomenology of being-in-the-world and applies it to the question of language. He takes language to be a mode of dwelling, in which there is an immediate, direct disclosure of meanings, and sketches an extensive picture of proto-phenomenology, how it revises the posture of philosophy, and how this posture applies to the nature of language. Representational theories are not rejected but subordinated to a presentational account of immediate disclosure in concrete embodied life. The book critically addresses standard theories of language, such that typical questions in the philosophy of language are revised in a manner that avoids binary separations of language and world, speech and cognition, theory and practise, realism and idealism, internalism and externalism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783488190
• ISBN13: 9781783488193
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary