scholarly journals The critique on individualistic submectivism in Marxism and philosophy of language

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristiane Lenz
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Similar Investigation ◽  
Philosophical Thought

The work of Valentin Volochínov, Marxism and Philosophy of Language (2009), is fundamental for the studies of language in what concerns to the comprehension of language under a materialistic perspective, which takes into account its material and ideological nature. It is important to understand that the author starts from the critique on different theoretical tendencies to the development of their conception of language. Thus, he refl ects on two main trends of the linguistic philosophical thought, which he designates as abstract objectivism and idealistic subjectivism. Reading the critique on these trends is fundamental to the comprehension of the development of his conception of language, in relation with ideology. We consider that, to make a deep reading, it is necessary to seek the sources on which this critique lies. Therefore, we propose the reading of a representative philosopher of idealistic subjectivism. It is Karl Vossler, in The spirit of language in civilization (1932). In this limit of space, we will stand onlyon the investigation of the work of this representative of one trend of the linguistic philosophical thought, the idealistic subjectivism, not disregarding the importance of a similar investigation into the abstract objectivism.

The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Comparative Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Kyoto School ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Japanese Buddhism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
East Asian Studies

Japanese philosophy is now a flourishing field with thriving societies, journals, and conferences dedicated to it around the world, made possible by an ever-increasing library of translations, books, and articles. The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy is a foundation-laying reference work that covers, in detail and depth, the entire span of this philosophical tradition, from ancient times to the present. It introduces and examines the most important topics, figures, schools, and texts from the history of philosophical thinking in premodern and modern Japan. Each chapter, written by a leading scholar in the field, clearly elucidates and critically engages with its topic in a manner that demonstrates its contemporary philosophical relevance. The Handbook opens with an extensive introductory chapter that addresses the multifaceted question, “What Is Japanese Philosophy?” The first fourteen chapters cover the premodern history of Japanese philosophy, with sections dedicated to Shintō and the Synthetic Nature of Japanese Philosophical Thought, Philosophies of Japanese Buddhism, and Philosophies of Japanese Confucianism and Bushidō. Next, seventeen chapters are devoted to Modern Japanese Philosophies. After a chapter on the initial encounter with and appropriation of Western philosophy in the late nineteenth-century, this large section is divided into one subsection on the most well-known group of twentieth-century Japanese philosophers, The Kyoto School, and a second subsection on the no less significant array of Other Modern Japanese Philosophies. Rounding out the volume is a section on Pervasive Topics in Japanese Philosophical Thought, which covers areas such as philosophy of language, philosophy of nature, ethics, and aesthetics, spanning a range of schools and time periods. This volume will be an invaluable resource specifically to students and scholars of Japanese philosophy, as well as more generally to those interested in Asian and comparative philosophy and East Asian studies.

scholarly journals Husserl's phenomenological philosophy in Russia

2003 ◽  
Vol 46 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 59-68
Author(s):  
Radomir Djordjevic
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Theory Of Knowledge ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Phenomenological Philosophy ◽  
Intuitionistic Theory

The paper reviews phaenomenological influences on Russian philosophical thought. Before the bolyshevique revolution of 1917, Husserl's ideas had attracted the attention of many Russian theoreticians, and during the last two decades effects of this impact are closely investigated. First of all there were several philosophers under very direct influence of phenomenology: N. O. Lossky, the author of numerous books, in his work on logic; S. L. Frank, who had developed an intuitionistic theory of knowledge Gustav Spet, logician, aesthetician, linguist etc, who accepted Husserl's conceptions in his books on interpretation, philosophy of history and philosophy of language; Alexiy Lossev, who wrote some thirty books, and in his early period (works on ancient dialectics, philosophy of language and logics) was phenomenologically oriented; etc. Husserl's philosophy has traced or affected the ideas of several other Russian thinkers, so in USSR as in exile throughout Europe (for instance, Georges Gurvitch).

scholarly journals What is Apophaticism? Ways of Talking About an Ineffable God

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Scott ◽  
Gabriel Citron
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Category Mistakes

Apophaticism – the view that God is both indescribable and inconceivable – is one of the great medieval traditions of philosophical thought about God, but it is largely overlooked by analytic philosophers of religion. This paper attempts to rehabilitate apophaticism as a serious philosophical option. We provide a clear formulation of the position, examine what could appropriately be said and thought about God if apophaticism is true, and consider ways to address the charge that apophaticism is self-defeating. In so doing we draw on recent work in the philosophy of language, touching on issues such as the nature of negation, category mistakes, fictionalism, and reductionism.

scholarly journals PEMIKIRAN MUHAMMAD SHAHRUR TENTANG RELASI FILSAFAT BAHASA DAN MODERNITAS

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad In’am Esha
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Human Life ◽  
First Language ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
Object Of Study

Study on philosophy of language, especially on contemporary Islamic thinker, is very needed for enriching thinking spectrum on this object. We hope this paper can open our horizon on this topics and enhance our knowledge especially on philosophy of language in Islamic perspective. This paper affords to describe Shahrur’s thought on relation between philosophy of language and modernity.  Important findings of the paper are: first, language as important reality in human life. With language realities of human life can be articulated well. So, language is a mirror of reality. Second, when we understand that “language as mirror of reality”, actually we make language passively. Shahrur’s philosophical thought on language gives us understanding that language can be functioned as active tool for developing progressive ethos and value for supporting modernity in Islamic world. Third, Philosophy of language gives us possibility for raising a new horizon of understanding on language as object of study.<br />Keywords: Shahrur, Filsafat Bahasa, Modernitas<br /><br />

A Politics of Intensity: Some Aspects of Acceleration in Simondon and Deleuze

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 498-517
Author(s):  
Yuk Hui ◽  
Louis Morelle
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
Generic Concept ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Ontological Ground ◽  
Shed Light

This article aims to clarify the question of speed and intensity in the thoughts of Simondon and Deleuze, in order to shed light on the recent debates regarding accelerationism and its politics. Instead of starting with speed, we propose to look into the notion of intensity and how it serves as a new ontological ground in Simondon's and Deleuze's philosophy and politics. Simondon mobilises the concept of intensity to criticise hylomorphism and substantialism; Deleuze, taking up Simondon's conceptual framework, repurposes it for his ontology of difference, elevating intensity to the rank of generic concept of being, thus bypassing notions of negativity and individuals as base, in favour of the productive and universal character of difference. In Deleuze, the correlation between intensity and speed is fraught with ambiguities, with each term threatening to subsume the other; this rampant tension becomes explicitly antagonistic when taken up by the diverse strands of contemporary accelerationism, resulting in two extreme cases in the posthuman discourse: either a pure becoming, achieved through destruction, or through abstraction that does away with intensity altogether; or an intensity without movement or speed, that remains a pure jouissance. Both cases appear to stumble over the problem of individuation, if not disindividuation. Hence, we wish to raise the following question: in what way can one think of an accelerationist politics with intensity, or an intensive politics without the fetishisation of speed? We consider this question central to the interrogation of the limits of acceleration and posthuman discourse, thus requiring a new philosophical thought on intensity and speed.

Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James McElvenny
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Vienna Circle ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Personal Connection ◽  
International Language ◽  
Academic Philosophy ◽  
Significant Figures ◽  
Basic English ◽  
And Linguistics

This book is a historical study of influential currents in the philosophy of language and linguistics of the first half of the twentieth century, explored from the perspective of the English scholar C. K. Ogden (1889–1957). Although no ‘Great Man’ in his own right, Ogden had a personal connection, reflected in his work, to several of the most significant figures of the age. The background to the ideas espoused in Ogden’s book The Meaning of Meaning, co-authored with I.A. Richards (1893–1979), is examined in detail, along with the application of these ideas in his international language project Basic English. A richly interlaced network of connections is revealed between early analytic philosophy, semiotics and linguistics, all inevitably shaped by the contemporary cultural and political environment. In particular, significant interaction is shown between Ogden’s ideas, the varying versions of ‘logical atomism’ of Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) and Ludwig Wittgensten (1889–1951), Victoria Lady Welby’s (1837–1912) ‘significs’, and the philosophy and political activism of Otto Neurath (1882–1945) and Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) of the Vienna Circle. Amid these interactions emerges a previously little known mutual exchange between the academic philosophy and linguistics of the period and the practically oriented efforts of the international language movement.

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