In: Routledge studies in twentieth-century philosophy
"This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of J.L. Austin's philosophy. It opens new ways of thinking about ethics and other contemporary issues in the wake of Austin's philosophical work. Austin is primarily viewed as a philosopher of language whose work focused on the pragmatic aspects of speech. His work on ordinary language philosophy and speech act theory is seen as his main contribution to philosophy. This book challenges this received view to show that Austin used his most well-known theoretical notions as heuristic tools aimed at debunking the fact/value dichotomy. Additionally, it demonstrates that Austin's continual returns to the ordinary is rooted in a desire to show that our lives in language are complicated and multifaceted. What emerges is an attempt to think with Austin about problems that are central to philosophy today-such as the question about linguistic inheritance, truth, the relationship between a language inherited and morality, and how we are to cope with linguistic elasticity and historicity. Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on Austin's philosophy, philosophy of language, and the history of analytic philosophy"--
In: Routledge studies in twentieth-century philosophy
In: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy Ser.
Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Verse -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Approaching Austin -- 1.1 Learning from a Teacher -- 1.2 Contesting Flourishing Images -- 1.3 Outline of the Chapters -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Approaching Language? -- 2.1 What is "Linguistic Philosophy" and What is It Not? -- 2.2 Thinking About the Meaning of a Word -- 2.3 A First Look at the Significance of Ordinary Language -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Lessons from Sense and Sensibilia -- 3.1 Beginning -- 3.2 What Ayer Heard Austin Say -- 3.3 Austin's Accusation -- 3.4 Four Critical Points: Senses of the Ordinary and Logic -- 3.5 Therapy, Really? -- Notes -- Chapter 4: A Plea for Phenomenology: On Austin's Method -- 4.1 First and Last Words -- 4.2 On Thinking that We Know What an Action Is (and On Not Knowing What Ethics Is) -- 4.3 Knowing What Words Ordinarily Mean -- 4.4 Stretching Concepts, Challenging Communality -- 4.5 A Linguistic Phenomenology and Invitational Remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Testimony and Knowledge -- 5.1 Elasticity and Solidity-Minds and Things -- 5.2 Thinking About Other Minds -- 5.3 The Analogy Between Knowing and Promising -- 5.4 Performatives: The Prelude -- Notes -- Chapter 6: All the Locutions -- 6.1 Introducing Performatives -- 6.2 Breakdown ('two shining new skids under our metaphysical feet') -- 6.3 The Corrections ("a perverse attachment"?) -- 6.4 What's Left? ("the deeply ingrained worship of tidy-looking dichotomies") -- 6.5 Trumpty Dumpty: Acknowledging that Humans Talk to Each Other -- 6.6 Speech Act Theorists-to the Rescue? -- 6.7 The Field of Tension -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Our Word is Our Bond -- 7.1 Queer Performances -- 7.2 Between Confidence and Hesitancy-Attunement -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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