...This chapter traces an intellectual history of Associationism from Newton to the nineteenth century, with a particular emphasis on these thinkers’ philosophy of language. Associationist linguistics, the chapter argues through Müller, Locke, and Hume, is fundamentally materialist. This linguistics...

...The chapter conceives a method of metaphysics according to the standards of contemporary philosophy. The metaphysics that has driven philosophy of language to avoid or embrace it holds that the structure of a singular judgment (Fa) models the structure of the world...

... earlier works on the philosophy of language, aesthetics, and literature. From a philosophy of language and linguistics that leads to a broader theory of representation, Agamben develops a critical theory that attempts to explore the hiatuses and paradoxes that govern discursive practice across a broad...

... the theory of language to its practice in various fields and interrogated what that means for the individual and society. In exploring this fundamental question, this book is central to the study and philosophy of language, with rich repercussions in fields such as translation studies, poetics and literary...