Idling the Engine

Idling the Engine

Linguistic SSkepticism in and Around Cortázar, Kafka, and Joyce

by E. Joseph Sharkey

283 pages· 2006· ISBN 9780813214412
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Author E. Joseph Sharkey uses the philosophies of language of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Ludwig Wittgenstein to counter the skepticism in question by showing that a language grounded in history instead of the transcendent is grounded nevertheless.

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