1st Edition
Labyrinths of Language Philosophical and Cultural Investigations
Introduction
1. The ‘Social’ and the ‘Cognitive’ in Language: A Reading of Saussure and Beyond
2. Between the Self and the Other: Language after Levinas
3. On Language and the Assumed Unity of the Human Sciences
4. Between Pragmatics and Deconstruction: Wittgenstein, Bakhtin and Derrida
5. Time, Language and the Destruction of Power
6. Kafka: Literature, Law and Language
7. Blanchot, Writing and the Politico-Religious
8. The Discourse of Death
9. The Body of Sense, the Sense of Body
10. Towards a Philosophy of Image
11. Culture and Politics in the Novel: On the Banks of the River Mahe
12. Globalization of English and the Indian Linguistic Context
13. Beginnings of Modern Linguistics and the Colonial Context: Perspectives from History, Culture and Religion
Biography
Franson Manjali serves as Professor of Linguistics and Semiotics at Jawarharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His previous publications include: Nuclear Semantics: Towards a Theory of Relational Meaning; Meaning, Culture and Cognition; Literature and Infinity; Language, Discource and Culture; Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives.
