The Limits Of Meaning
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The Limits Of Meaning
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Author : Matthew Engelke
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2006-08-01
The Limits Of Meaning written by Matthew Engelke and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-01 with Religion categories.
Too often, anthropological accounts of ritual leave readers with the impression that everything goes smoothly, that rituals are "meaningful events." But what happens when rituals fail, or when they seem "meaningless"? Drawing on research in the anthropology of Christianity from around the globe, the authors in this volume suggest that in order to analyze meaning productively, we need to consider its limits. This collection is a welcome new addition to the anthropology of religion, offering fresh debates on a classic topic and drawing attention to meaning in a way that other volumes have for key terms like "culture" and "fieldwork.
Meaning Truth And The Limits Of Analysis
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Author : David Wiggins
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-24
Meaning Truth And The Limits Of Analysis written by David Wiggins 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 2022-03-24 with Philosophy categories.
This volume draws together work by David Wiggins on topics to do with language, meaning, truth, and the limit of semantic analysis, from 1980 to 2020. Each chapter draws upon previously published material, but that material has been revised, sometimes significantly, for republication here. Opening with a selective account of a century's work in the philosophy of meaning, from Frege and Wittgenstein to the late twentieth century, the book engages first with the nuts and bolts of sentence-construction: predicates and the copula, quantifiers, names, existence treated as a second-level predicate, and adverbial modification. The following five chapters then treat of definition and (as dreamt of by Leibniz and others) the terminus of semantic analysis; the idea of natural languages as real things with a history; the idea of truth conceived as correlative with inquiry (C. S. Peirce) and, finally, the properties we look for in truth itself--the marks, as Frege or Leibniz might have said, of the concept true.
The Limits Of History
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Author : Constantin Fasolt
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-09-03
The Limits Of History written by Constantin Fasolt and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-03 with History categories.
History casts a spell on our minds more powerful than science or religion. It does not root us in the past at all. It rather flatters us with the belief in our ability to recreate the world in our image. It is a form of self-assertion that brooks no opposition or dissent and shelters us from the experience of time. So argues Constantin Fasolt in The Limits of History, an ambitious and pathbreaking study that conquers history's power by carrying the fight into the center of its domain. Fasolt considers the work of Hermann Conring (1606-81) and Bartolus of Sassoferrato (1313/14-57), two antipodes in early modern battles over the principles of European thought and action that ended with the triumph of historical consciousness. Proceeding according to the rules of normal historical analysis—gathering evidence, putting it in context, and analyzing its meaning—Fasolt uncovers limits that no kind of history can cross. He concludes that history is a ritual designed to maintain the modern faith in the autonomy of states and individuals. God wants it, the old crusaders would have said. The truth, Fasolt insists, only begins where that illusion ends. With its probing look at the ideological underpinnings of historical practice, The Limits of History demonstrates that history presupposes highly political assumptions about free will, responsibility, and the relationship between the past and the present. A work of both intellectual history and historiography, it will prove invaluable to students of historical method, philosophy, political theory, and early modern European culture.
The Limits Of Settlement Growth
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Author : Roland Fletcher
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-09-29
The Limits Of Settlement Growth written by Roland Fletcher and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-09-29 with Political Science categories.
In this study Roland Fletcher argues that the built environment becomes a constraint on the long-term development of a settlement. It is costly to move settlements, or to demolish and rebuild from scratch, so the initial layout and buildings, and the forms of communication that result, may come to shackle further development and also to place constraints on social and political change. Using this theoretical framework, Dr Fletcher reviews worldwide settlement growth over the past 15,000 years, and concludes with a major discussion of the great transformations of human settlements - from mobile to sedentary, sedentary to urban, and urban to industrial. This book is an ambitious contribution to archaeological theory, and the questions it raises also have implications for the future of urban settlement.
The Limits Of Truth Essays
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Author : Robert N. Britcher
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2012-12-10
The Limits Of Truth Essays written by Robert N. Britcher and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-10 with Philosophy categories.
These intriguing essays on philosophical truth encapsulate the history and theories of truth; the acquisition of common sense; reasoning and language; and logic and science. But they go beyond the logical, propositional truth, and investigate truth in the ontological sense: for example, in faith, art, and history. The essays are literary and non-academic in style. The author has a point of view: truth is an evolutionary concept that arose among human (and hominid) societies. This evolutionary view stresses the high degree to which our reasoning and truth-telling are rooted in our emotions, which account for, not just meaning in the linguistic sense, but also meaningfulness, or emotional significance. It is the latter which leaves us open to subconscious as well as fully intentional lying, but also to great works of art and acts of faith.
A Theory Of Textuality
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Author : Jorge J. E. Gracia
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1995-07-01
A Theory Of Textuality written by Jorge J. E. Gracia and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-07-01 with Philosophy categories.
This book is just what it says it is: A theory of textuality divided into two parts, logical and epistemological.
The Limits Of Language
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Author : Stephen David Ross
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 1994
The Limits Of Language written by Stephen David Ross and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
What makes the author's approach unique is its concern with the ways in which we may understand language and its relation to the world and ourselves as a question of limits, drawing upon contemporary continental and English-language views of language, philosophical and linguistic, from American pragmatists such as Peirce and Dewey, and from important contemporary sources such as feminist theory.
Kierkegaard And The Limits Of The Ethical
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Author : Anthony Rudd
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1997-07-24
Kierkegaard And The Limits Of The Ethical written by Anthony Rudd 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 1997-07-24 with Philosophy categories.
Kierkegaard's radical and still inadequately understood work implies that morality and religion must be seen in terms of the individual's search for meaning in his or her life whilst acknowledging the objectivity of values.
Christianity And The Limits Of Materiality
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Author : Minna Opas
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-06-29
Christianity And The Limits Of Materiality written by Minna Opas and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-29 with Religion categories.
Despite the fact that Christianity is understood to be thoroughly intertwined with matter, objects, and things, Christians struggle to cope with this materiality in their daily lives. This volume argues that the ambivalent relationships many Christians have with materiality is a driving force that contributes to the way people in different Christian traditions and in different parts of the world understand and live out their religion. By placing the questions of limits and boundary-work to the fore, the volume addresses the question of exactly how Christianity takes place materially, addressing a gap in studies to date. Christianity and the Limits of Materiality presents ground-breaking research on the frameworks and contexts in relation to and within which Christian logics of materiality operate. The volume places the negotiations at the limits of materiality within the larger framework of Christian identities and politics of belonging. The chapters discuss case studies from North and South America, Europe, and Africa, and demonstrate that the limits preoccupying Christians delimit their lives but also enable many things. Ultimately, Christianity and the Limits of Materiality demonstrates that it is at the interfaces of materiality and the transcendent that Christians create and legitimise their religion.
The Anthropology Of Christianity
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Author : Fenella Cannell
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Release Date : 2006-11-07
The Anthropology Of Christianity written by Fenella Cannell and has been published by Duke University Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-07 with Religion categories.
Ethnographies exploring the vastly different ways that Christianity is experienced and understood by different groups around the world.