Speaking: (La Parole)

By Georges Gusdorf and gusdorf georges

Book Overview

Speaking is an introduction to the philosophy of language from an existential and phenomenological point of view. Gusdorf's central concern is to analyze speech within the context of human reality. Speech is an abstraction, but speaking is not, he says. Speaking expresses the experimental and dialectical relation of man, nature, and society. It is through speaking that nature is sublimated into the meant and expressive world of human reality.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810105314
• ISBN13: 9780810105317
• Release Date: December 1979
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Incredible

Translated out of French, Gusdorf's philosophy is deceptively simplistic and very easy to read. He focuses on the importance of language to our lives and, ultimately, the way that it shapes our very world, including our ethics. I read this book during an ethics course and I have to warn that it is much deeper than it appears on the surface. If you can wade through the paradigm shifts, however, it may change your life - Gusdorf has such a thorough grasp of how things work that my point of view has been irrevocably changed.