Passionate Being

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Passionate Being

Language, Singularity and Perseverance

Philosophy of language

Author: Yve Lomax

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Language: English

Published by: I.B. Tauris

Published on: 30th November 2009

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 176 pages

ISBN: 9780857731579


Introduction

Written through both the first and second person singular, "Passionate Being" takes its author and its reader on a journey that has them thinking of their experience of and belonging to language and the possibility of an instance of the world taking-place without prejudice and exclusion.

Beginning and Questions

At its beginning, it brings to its author the question "What can you say?" The responses that ensue turn our attention toward presupposition and about how "singularity" can be said.

Influences and Themes

The book also brings into play, among others, the work of Giorgio Agamben. It asks us to view both language and the world taking-place without presupposition, revealing both the political implications, and those for living, that this vision holds.

Reading Recommendations

It is a work to be read twice with pleasure, and then again.

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