Hagi Kenaan is senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University. In addition to studies of aesthetics and the philosophies of Husserl, Heidegger, and Derrida, Kenaan has published poetry and a children's book, One Special Day, Philosophy.

• Preface Introduction: Philosophy and the Personal 1. Language and the Bell Jar A Picture Held Us Captive Language's Frame The Fact of the Propositional "This Is How Things Are" The Bell Jar 2. The Limits of Language and the Dream of Transcendence Philosophy and Disappointment Language: The Map Language and Silence: The Example of Abraham The Limits of Language and the Question of Freedom Before the Law of Language From Disappointment to Philosophy 3. Austin's Fireworks Austin's Fireworks: The Promise of the Pragmatic Turn How to Do Things with Austin The Act of Speech The Pragmatic and the Personal The Mirror at Hand: Afterthoughts 4. Personal Objects Heidegger (Before) and (After) Austin Heidegger's Pragmatic Interpretation of the Ordinary The Prison of the Ordinary The Aesthetic Elision of the Personal Van Gogh's Shoes Sabina's Hat 5. Language Unframed: Beauty as Model It's Funny Aesthetic Judgment The Language of Taste The Phenomenality of Your Words 6. Personal Time The Time Is Past Time and the Language of Possibility Time Prefaced Perhaps Present In My End Is My Beginning Epilogue Notes Index

Hagi Kenaan is senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University. In addition to studies of aesthetics and the philosophies of Husserl, Heidegger, and Derrida, Kenaan has published poetry and a children's book, One Special Day, Philosophy.

• Preface Introduction: Philosophy and the Personal 1. Language and the Bell Jar A Picture Held Us Captive Language's Frame The Fact of the Propositional "This Is How Things Are" The Bell Jar 2. The Limits of Language and the Dream of Transcendence Philosophy and Disappointment Language: The Map Language and Silence: The Example of Abraham The Limits of Language and the Question of Freedom Before the Law of Language From Disappointment to Philosophy 3. Austin's Fireworks Austin's Fireworks: The Promise of the Pragmatic Turn How to Do Things with Austin The Act of Speech The Pragmatic and the Personal The Mirror at Hand: Afterthoughts 4. Personal Objects Heidegger (Before) and (After) Austin Heidegger's Pragmatic Interpretation of the Ordinary The Prison of the Ordinary The Aesthetic Elision of the Personal Van Gogh's Shoes Sabina's Hat 5. Language Unframed: Beauty as Model It's Funny Aesthetic Judgment The Language of Taste The Phenomenality of Your Words 6. Personal Time The Time Is Past Time and the Language of Possibility Time Prefaced Perhaps Present In My End Is My Beginning Epilogue Notes Index

Hagi Kenaan is senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University. In addition to studies of aesthetics and the philosophies of Husserl, Heidegger, and Derrida, Kenaan has published poetry and a children's book, One Special Day, Philosophy.

• Preface Introduction: Philosophy and the Personal 1. Language and the Bell Jar A Picture Held Us Captive Language's Frame The Fact of the Propositional "This Is How Things Are" The Bell Jar 2. The Limits of Language and the Dream of Transcendence Philosophy and Disappointment Language: The Map Language and Silence: The Example of Abraham The Limits of Language and the Question of Freedom Before the Law of Language From Disappointment to Philosophy 3. Austin's Fireworks Austin's Fireworks: The Promise of the Pragmatic Turn How to Do Things with Austin The Act of Speech The Pragmatic and the Personal The Mirror at Hand: Afterthoughts 4. Personal Objects Heidegger (Before) and (After) Austin Heidegger's Pragmatic Interpretation of the Ordinary The Prison of the Ordinary The Aesthetic Elision of the Personal Van Gogh's Shoes Sabina's Hat 5. Language Unframed: Beauty as Model It's Funny Aesthetic Judgment The Language of Taste The Phenomenality of Your Words 6. Personal Time The Time Is Past Time and the Language of Possibility Time Prefaced Perhaps Present In My End Is My Beginning Epilogue Notes Index