{"product_id":"the-present-personal-9780231133500","title":"The Present Personal","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface 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","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524649754967,"sku":"9780231133500","price":46.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231133500.jpg?v=1731857609","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-present-personal-9780231133500","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}