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Garden of letters : toward a theory of literary nationhood -- The limits of ideology : Rabelais and the edge of Christendom -- Nation and utopia in the 1530s : the case of Rabelais's Gargantua -- Narrative form and national space : textual geography from the Heptaméron to La princesse de Cléves -- Representing France at mid-century : Du Bellay and the lyric invention of national character -- History, alterity, and the European subject in Montaigne's Essais -- Pauline's dream

"This volume assembles twenty-three essays by Erich S. Gruen, who has written extensively on the literature and history of early Judaism and the experience of the Jews in the Greco-Roman world. Twenty-two of the articles have previously been published, and one new one was composed for the volume"--

Abstract:In recent years, so-called "therapeutic" readings of the later Wittgenstein have centered on the claim that his treatment of questions involving "meaning" should not be seen as playing a foundational role for his approach of treating philosophical problems by clarifying the grammar of expressions. As they argue, the treatment of problems involving "meaning" should not be seen as playing a special role for this approach as such. Now in Philosophical Investigations §117, Wittgenstein is bringing in his criticism of the "atmosphere" conception of meaning – which he links directly to his approach of clarifying the grammar of expressions figuring in philosophical problems. Assuming the widespread view that what should be pitted against this "atmosphere" conception are remarks clarifying the grammar of "meaning", the problem apparently confronting therapeutic readings here is that the clarification of the grammar of this particular word might thus appear to assume yet a special relevance for Wittgenstein's clarificatory approach as a whole. My aim in this paper is to show that this dilemma is not a real one – by showing that there is actually a problem with the view that remarks clarifying the grammar of "meaning" could play a privileged role in debunking the type of misconception Wittgenstein introduces in PI § 117.

"This book's purpose is to demonstrate, via the examination of popular youth literature from the 1920s through to the 1950s, that the stories therein drew their definitions of heroism and villainy from an overarching, nativist fear of outsiders that had existed before the Great War, but intensified afterwards"--Provided by publisher