158 Pages
by
Routledge
158 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Meaning is one of our most central and most ubiquitous concepts. Anything at all may, in suitable contexts, have meaning ascribed to it. In this wide-ranging book, David Cooper departs from the usual focus on linguistic meaning to discuss how works of art, ceremony, social action, bodily gesture, and the purpose of life can all be meaningful. He argues that the notion of meaning is best approached... Read more
1. Preliminaries 2. The reach of meaning 3. Language 4. Knowledge, meaning and world 5. Meaning, society and the human sciences 6. Meaning and the arts 7. The meaning of life References Index
Biography
David E. Cooper
