We seem to be more concerned right now about whether we’re living in a virtual reality than whether we’re living in a text.
Also, note that it ignores phenomenology, existentialism, and critical theory, which were concerned much more with life and society than with language. On the other hand, I guess maybe that by 1967, post-... — Jamal
The 'original' Husserlian phenomenology in fact w a s concerned with language. Husserl's Logical Investigations was mostly about the difference between signification and intuition i.e. meanings or expressions vs. intuitive-perceptual comprehension or 'fulfillment' of the sense. — waarala
.” That’s not to say that getting away from “mere words” — Jamal
Concludes that the linguistic turn might have had its day. :scream: — Wayfarer
These are not a step forward but a regressive move backward. In order to go beyond a way of thinking, you first have to demonstrate a proper understanding of it. — Joshs
In order to go beyond a way of thinking, you first have to demonstrate a proper understanding of it. — Joshs
This seems to me a prima facie false statement. Do you have an argument for it? — wonderer1
No offense intended, but your statement strikes me as something a member of a priesthood might say, in an attempt to cow anyone who might suggest it might be reasonable to dismiss the priesthood's theobabble. — wonderer1
The article assumes a divide between language and the study of what exists which ignores how the problem of language has always been central to the concerns of philosophers. — Paine
Concludes that the linguistic turn might have had its day. — Wayfarer
I am wondering how that activity is specific to a problem we are having now seen side by side with people having the problem at other times. — Paine
This feels a bit shallow. Or the familiar cry of "Our time now is so unique, that old things don't cover it".And we are no longer a planet awash in newsprint, but a world of imagery and image-text hybrids of sorts not covered in the Tractatus. We seem to be more concerned right now about whether we’re living in a virtual reality than whether we’re living in a text. That all sorts of new questions have arisen, however, demands new reflection, but also makes possible new histories. As Hegel observed, you can’t really tell the story of something until it starts winding down.
Concludes that the linguistic turn might have had its day.
— Wayfarer
If so, then only because it is by now ubiquitous. — Banno
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