Narrative Dimensions of Philosophy

A Semiotic Exploration of the Work of Merleau-Ponty, Kierkegaard and Austin

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As pattern seeking creatures, humans use story-telling techniques to create and communicate beliefs, thoughts and ideas about the world, personal identity and reality. In evolved and complex social contexts, These beliefs, thoughts and ideas have taken the form of philosophical texts, which construct elaborate and systematic theories, principles and arguments. The question that arises is: do such conceptually sophisticated texts also exhibit, on some level, the prototypical story-telling patterns found in myths and fairy tales? This book explores this question, using concepts from semiotics and narratology. The book has two main objectives: first, to outline and illustrate a new semiotic technique for analyzing complex non-fictional texts, such as philosophy. Second, to use this technique in presenting and discussing three major full-length works by influential philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Soren Kierkegaard and John Austin. Bridging the gap between literary analysis and philosophical investigation, the book examines the ways in which these philosophers' conceptualizations of reality, self and action are formed through narrative strategy.

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Inbunden (hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 208
Utg.datum: 2006-10-01
Förlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Illustrationer: Illustrations
Dimensioner: 222 x 146 x 12 mm
Vikt: 353 g
Antal komponenter: 1
ISBN: 9780230005327

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'Sky Marsen, a lecturer in language studies who has published on professional writing and communication studies, proves herself a strikingly broad-ranged scholar with the publication of this work.' - Robert A"'Mochain, Discourse Studies

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SKY MARSEN is Lecturer in Language Studies and Acting Director of the Writing Programme in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has lectured internationally in various areas of text analysis and semiotics and has published scholarly research in writing strategy, pragmatics and the semiotic analysis of film, as well as textbooks in professional writing and in communication studies. Her research interests include semiotics, narratology and the philosophy of language. She is author of Professional Writing: The Complete Guide for Business, Industry and IT.

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List of Figures Preface Language, Knowledge and Reality The Narrative Framework Textual Dimensions and Narrator Roles The Meaning in Existence: Freedom through Action in Merleau-Ponty's World Presupposed Worlds The Return of the Hero: Embodied Identity in Kierkegaard's World The Winner's Game: Out and About in Austin's World Bibliography Index

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