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Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary: Language and Morality in J.L. Austin’s Philosophy book cover

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Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary Language and Morality in J.L. Austin’s Philosophy

By Niklas Forsberg Copyright 2022
266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge
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This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of J.L. Austin’s philosophy. It opens new ways of thinking about ethics and other contemporary issues in the wake of Austin’s philosophical work. Austin is primarily viewed as a philosopher of language whose work focused on the pragmatic aspects of speech. His work on ordinary language philosophy and speech act theory is seen as his main... Read more

1. Approaching Austin

2. Approaching Language?

3. Lessons from Sense and Sensibilia

4. A Plea for Phenomenology: On Austin’s Method

5. Testimony and Knowledge

6. All the Locutions

7. Our Word is Our Bond

Biography

Niklas Forsberg is Head of Research at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. He is the author of Language Lost and Found: On Iris Murdoch and the Limits of Philosophical Discourse (2012).　

"This book provides the first comprehensive study of Austin’s philosophy as a whole. It is remarkably useful and welcome, at a crucial moment of re-evaluation of ordinary language philosophy as an actual alternative to mainstream analytic philosophy."

Sandra Laugier, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France

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