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Pandora and Occam
Horst Ruthrof
其他書名
On the Limits of Language and Literature
出版Indiana University Press, 1992
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / SemanticsLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & TheoryPhilosophy / General
ISBN02533499589780253349958
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6RCFAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Evoking Pandora and Occam as metaphoric corner posts in an argument about language as discourse, Horst Ruthrof brings analytic philosophy to bear on issues of Continental philosophy, with attention to linguistic, semiological, and semiotic concerns. Instead of regarding meanings as guaranteed by definitions, the author argues that linguistic expressions are schemata directing us more or less loosely toward the activation of nonlinguistic sign systems. Ruthrof draws up a heuristic hierarchy of discourses, with literary expression at the top, descending through communication-reduced reference and speech acts to formal logic and digital communication at the bottom. The book offers multiple perspectives from which to review traditional theories of meaning, working from a wide variety of theorists, including Peirce, Frege, Husserl, Derrida, Lyotard, Davidson, and Searle.