1st Edition
Philosophy of Nonsense The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature
By Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Copyright 1994
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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'Jean-Jacques Lecercle's remarkable Philosophy of Nonsense offers a sustained and important account of an area that is usually hastily dismissed. Using the resources of contemporary philosophy - notably Deleuze and Lyotard - he manages to bring out the importance of nonsense' - Andrew Benjamin, University of Warwick Why are we, and in particular why are philosophers and linguists, so... Read more
Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: READING NONSENSE READING Reading nonsense; Nonsense reading: Lewis Carroll and the Talmud; Rereading nonsense: ‘Jabberwocky’ 1 THE LINGUISTICS OF NONSENSE 2 THE PRAGMATICS OF NONSENSE 3 NONSENSE AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE 4 THE POLYPHONY OF NONSENSE CONCLUSION
Biography
Jean-Jacques Lecercle is Professor of English at the University of Paris. He is the author of Philosophy Through the Looking Glass, Frankenstein: Mythe et Philosophie and The Violence of Language.
