Language And The Ineffable
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Voicing The Ineffable
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Author : Siglind Bruhn
language : en
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Release Date : 2002
Voicing The Ineffable written by Siglind Bruhn and has been published by Pendragon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The relationship between music and religion has long been a clearly delineated one. Up to the late Middle Ages, music employed for ritual expressions of faith in sacred contexts was contrasted with secular music, then mostly played in open spaces. The former was believed to aid in the communication of divine truths, while the latter was suspected of arousing sensuality and thus potentially leading away from the spiritual perspective of life. In subsequent centuries, music entered first the courtly salons, then the concert hall and the home. Such music, created for virtuoso performance or for the enjoyment in private chambers, occasionally made room for an expression of religious experiences outside the dedicated spaces of worship. This aspect is particularly intriguing in instrumental music, where allusions to extra-musical messages are at best hinted at in titles or explanatory notes, and in those cases of vocal music where it can be shown that the musical language adds significant nuances to the verbal text. On the basis of various case studies that transcend a music-analytical approach in the direction of the hermeneutic perspective, this volume explores in which ways the musical language in itself, independently of an explicitly sacred context, communicates the ineffable. The discussion focuses on the musical means and devices employed to this effect and on the question what the presence of religious messages in certain works of secular music tells us about the spirituality of an era.
Contemplations On Language And Logic
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Author : Pasquale De Marco
language : en
Publisher: Pasquale De Marco
Release Date :
Contemplations On Language And Logic written by Pasquale De Marco and has been published by Pasquale De Marco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Philosophy categories.
**Contemplations on Language and Logic** is a comprehensive exploration of the nature of language and its relationship to thought, reality, culture, and the self. Drawing on insights from philosophy, linguistics, cognitive science, and other disciplines, this book provides a multifaceted understanding of this complex and fascinating phenomenon. **Written in a clear and accessible style, the book is divided into ten chapters, each of which examines a different aspect of language:** * The Nature of Language: Explores the relationship between language and thought, the meaning of words and phrases, the grammar of language, and the role of language in communication. * The Limits of Language: Examines the limits of what can be said and thought, the nature of paradox, the limitations of human understanding, and the role of silence in communication. * Language and Reality: Explores the relationship between language and the world, the role of language in shaping our experience of reality, the nature of representation, the problem of universals, and the nature of truth and knowledge. * Language and Culture: Explores the relationship between language and culture, the ways in which language shapes our worldview, the role of language in social interaction, the nature of cultural relativism, and the problem of translation. * Language and the Self: Explores the relationship between language and the self, the ways in which language shapes our identity, the nature of self-expression, the problem of subjectivity, and the nature of the unconscious. * Language and Philosophy: Explores the relationship between language and philosophy, the use of language in philosophical analysis, the nature of philosophical inquiry, the problem of skepticism, and the limits of language in expressing philosophical ideas. * Language and Art: Explores the relationship between language and art, the use of language in literature, music, and other art forms, the nature of aesthetic experience, the problem of interpretation, and the limits of language in expressing artistic ideas. * Language and Technology: Explores the relationship between language and technology, the ways in which technology shapes our use of language, the nature of artificial intelligence, the problem of machine consciousness, and the limits of language in describing the digital world. * Language and Education: Explores the relationship between language and education, the ways in which language shapes our educational experiences, the nature of literacy, the problem of educational inequality, and the limits of language in teaching and learning. * The Future of Language: Explores the challenges facing language in the 21st century, the ways in which language is changing and evolving, the future of artificial intelligence, the problem of global communication, and the limits of language in the face of future challenges. **Contemplations on Language and Logic** is an essential read for students, scholars, and general readers who are interested in the nature of language and its relationship to human thought, reality, culture, and the self. If you like this book, write a review!
Language Image And Silence
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Author : Onno Zijlstra
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2006
Language Image And Silence written by Onno Zijlstra and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Art categories.
This study examines the relation of image and language as well as the relation of ethics and aesthetics through a discussion of the positions of Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein. In the Tractatus Wittgenstein pursues the idea that the image can show what language cannot express and defends an aesthetic unity of ethics and aesthetics. Is he right? Is there not much to be said in favour of the opposite position, represented by Kierkegaard's pseudonymous author Judge William (in Either/Or)? William criticizes the image and argues in favour of language and of an ethical unity of aesthetics and ethics. William shows that the word has a decisive surplus when compared to the image. However, this position has its shortcomings too: language is not the only place of authentic communication. Looking for an alternative to 'logoclasm' (the early Wittgenstein) and 'iconoclasm' (William), Zijlstra explores Wittgenstein's later work and Kierkegaard's oeuvre as a whole and presents a new way of thinking about the relation of ethics and aesthetics.
Damascius Problems And Solutions Concerning First Principles
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Author : Sara Ahbel-Rappe
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-10-28
Damascius Problems And Solutions Concerning First Principles written by Sara Ahbel-Rappe and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-28 with Religion categories.
Damascius was head of the Neoplatonist academy in Athens when the Emperor Justinian shut its doors forever in 529. His work, Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles, is the last surviving independent philosophical treatise from the Late Academy. Its survey of Neoplatonist metaphysics, discussion of transcendence, and compendium of late antique theologies, make it unique among all extant works of late antique philosophy. It has never before been translated into English. The Problems and Solutions exhibits a thorough?going critique of Proclean metaphysics, starting with the principle that all that exists proceeds from a single cause, proceeding to critique the Proclean triadic view of procession and reversion, and severely undermining the status of intellectual reversion in establishing being as the intelligible object. Damascius investigates the internal contradictions lurking within the theory of descent as a whole, showing that similarity of cause and effect is vitiated in the case of processions where one order (e.g. intellect) gives rise to an entirely different order (e.g. soul). Neoplatonism as a speculative metaphysics posits the One as the exotic or extopic explanans for plurality, conceived as immediate, present to hand, and therefore requiring explanation. Damascius shifts the perspective of his metaphysics: he struggles to create a metaphysical discourse that accommodates, insofar as language is sufficient, the ultimate principle of reality. After all, how coherent is a metaphysical system that bases itself on the Ineffable as a first principle? Instead of creating an objective ontology, Damascius writes ever mindful of the limitations of dialectic, and of the pitfalls and snares inherent in the very structure of metaphysical discourse.
The Language Of Ontology
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Author : J. T. M. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
The Language Of Ontology written by J. T. M. Miller and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Philosophy categories.
The Langage of Ontology addresses the question of is whether the nature of language influences or limits debates about what exists. Chapters from both established and new voices explore the range of issues relating to our ability or inability to get beyond the limits of our language.
Language And World
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Author : Richard Gaskin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-07-06
Language And World written by Richard Gaskin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-06 with Philosophy categories.
This book defends a version of linguistic idealism, the thesis that the world is a product of language. In the course of defending this radical thesis, Gaskin addresses a wide range of topics in contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and syntax theory. Starting from the context and compositionality principles, and the idea of a systematic theory of meaning in the Tarski–Davidson tradition, Gaskin argues that the sentence is the primary unit of linguistic meaning, and that the main aspects of meaning, sense and reference, are themselves theoretical posits. Ontology, which is correlative with reference, emerges as language-driven. This linguistic idealism is combined with a realism that accepts the objectivity of science, and it is accordingly distinguished from empirical pragmatism. Gaskin contends that there is a basic metaphysical level at which everything is expressible in language; but the vindication of linguistic idealism is nuanced inasmuch as there is also a derived level, asymmetrically dependant on the basic level, at which reality can break free of language and reach into the realms of the unnameable and indescribable. Language and World will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and linguistics.
Language World And Limits
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Author : A. W. Moore
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-28
Language World And Limits written by A. W. Moore and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-28 with Philosophy categories.
These essays by A.W. Moore are all concerned with the business of representing how things are - its nature, its scope, and its limits. The essays in Part One deal with linguistic representation and discuss topics such as rules of representation and their nature, the sorites paradox, and the very distinction between sense and nonsense. Wittgenstein's work, both early and late, figures prominently. One thesis that surfaces at various points is that some things are beyond representation. The essays in Part Two deal with representation more generally and with the character of what is represented, and owe much to Bernard Williams's argument for the possibility of representation from no point of view. They touch more or less directly on the distinction between representation from a point of view and representation from no point of view-in some cases by exploring various consequences of Kant's belief that representation of how things are physically is always, eo ipso, representation from a point of view. One thesis that surfaces at various points is that nothing is beyond representation. Each of the essays in Part Three, which draw inspiration from the early work of Wittgenstein, indicate how the resulting tension between Parts One and Two is to be resolved: namely, by construing the first part as a thesis about states of knowledge or understanding, and the second part as a thesis about facts or truths.
The Language Of Bion
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Author : P.C. Sandler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-05-08
The Language Of Bion written by P.C. Sandler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-08 with Psychology categories.
Considering that introductory books cannot replace an author's original words,and that Bion’ s concepts are often found to be difficult to grasp, Dr Sandler has compiled an unusual style of dictionary. He assembles. He assembles relevant quotations from Bion's texts together with the meaning of concepts and their place in the history of their development.
Wittgenstein S Private Language
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Author : Stephen Mulhall
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2008-09-04
Wittgenstein S Private Language written by Stephen Mulhall and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-04 with Philosophy categories.
Stephen Mulhall presents a detailed critical commentary on sections 243-315 of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: the famous remarks on 'private language'. In so doing, he makes detailed use of Stanley Cavell's interpretations of these remarks; and relates disputes about how to interpret this aspect of Wittgenstein's later philosophy to a recent, highly influential controversy about how to interpret Wittgenstein's early text, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, by drawing and testing out a distinction between resolute and substantial understandings of the related notions of grammar, nonsense and the imagination. The book is concerned throughout to elucidate Wittgenstein's philosophical method, and to establish the importance of the form or style of his writing to the proper application of this method.
The Exile Of Language
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Author : Libera Pisano
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2025-06-05
The Exile Of Language written by Libera Pisano and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-06-05 with Religion categories.
The Exile of Language uncovers a hidden chapter in the history of philosophy, where early twentieth-century German-Jewish thinkers such as Fritz Mauthner, Gustav Landauer, Margarete Susman, Franz Rosenzweig, and Walter Benjamin grappled with the inherent tension of their intertwined identities. The study of these thinkers reveals how a sceptical and diasporic approach to language can question and reshape traditional concepts of belonging, purity, and nation. By confronting the myth of autochthony, their critiques of linguistic and national idolatry offer a fresh lens for reimagining politics in our times. This narrative blends philosophical depth with groundbreaking insights, making it a must-read for anyone interested in the dynamic interplay of language, identity, and community.