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Concepts
Drawing on the work of renowned psychological theorist Lev Vygotsky, Blunden extends his work begun with Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity
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Émigrés
The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the worldEnglish has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and phrases—s...
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How propaganda works
How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attentionOur democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propa...
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Kripke's wittgenstein
This book examines Kripke’s influential interpretation of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, as presented in his celebrated book Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language (1982). It analyses the sceptical challenge to meaning and rule-following, clarifies its implications and surveys the major res...
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Persian parables
A major reassessment of the parable in Persian literature and its contribution to philosophical and creative thinkingIn this book, Hamid Dabashi offers a radical reconsideration of the parable in Persian literature, arguing that parabolic thinking is a mode of philosophical reflection. Dabashi es...
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Rare tongues
An enthralling tour of the world’s rarest and most endangered languagesLanguages and cultures are becoming increasingly homogenous, with the resulting loss of a rich linguistic tapestry reflecting unique perspectives and ways of life. Rare Tongues tells the stories of the world’s rare and vanishi...
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Reading gramsci
An illuminating and original collection of essays by Spain’s most famous Gramsci scholar, translated to English for the first time.
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Rethinking language, mind, and meaning
In this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study of language and mind that has taken place since the late nineteenth century must be rethought. The central insight in the reigning tradition is that propositions are representational. To know the meaning of a sentence or the conte...
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Sense and value in wittgenstein’s tractatus
The book provides a reading of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, focusing on its treatment of sense, language, and logic, then examines its ethical and value-oriented themes. It analyzes the work’s concluding remarks on ethics, situating them within its scientific worldview and highlighting parallels wit...
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The analytic tradition in philosophy, volume 3
An in-depth history of modal logic in analytic philosophy, from a leading philosopher of languageThis is the third of five volumes of a definitive history of analytic philosophy from the invention of modern logic in 1879 to the end of the twentieth century. Scott Soames, a leading philosopher of ...
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The politics of language
A provocative case for the inherently political nature of languageIn The Politics of Language, David Beaver and Jason Stanley present a radical new approach to the theory of meaning, offering an account of communication in which political and social identity, affect, and shared practices play as ...
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