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Book SynopsisWhile philosophy is experienced at admiring, resenting, celebrating, and, at times, renouncing language, philosophers have rarely succeeded in being intimate with it. This book argues that philosophy's concern with abstract forms of linguistic meaning and the objective, propositional nature of language has obscured the singular human voice.
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Philosophy and the Personal 1. Language and the Bell Jar A Picture Held Us Captive Language's Frame The Fact of the Propositional "This Is How Things Are" The Bell Jar 2. The Limits of Language and the Dream of Transcendence Philosophy and Disappointment Language: The Map Language and Silence: The Example of Abraham The Limits of Language and the Question of Freedom Before the Law of Language From Disappointment to Philosophy 3. Austin's Fireworks Austin's Fireworks: The Promise of the Pragmatic Turn How to Do Things with Austin The Act of Speech The Pragmatic and the Personal The Mirror at Hand: Afterthoughts 4. Personal Objects Heidegger (Before) and (After) Austin Heidegger's Pragmatic Interpretation of the Ordinary The Prison of the Ordinary The Aesthetic Elision of the Personal Van Gogh's Shoes Sabina's Hat 5. Language Unframed: Beauty as Model It's Funny Aesthetic Judgment The Language of Taste The Phenomenality of Your Words 6. Personal Time The Time Is Past Time and the Language of Possibility Time Prefaced Perhaps Present In My End Is My Beginning Epilogue Notes Index
