The Linguistic Turn provides a rich and representative introduction to the entire historical and doctrinal range of the linguistic philosophy movement. In two retrospective essays titled ''Ten Years After'' and ''Twenty-Five Years After,'' Rorty shows how his book was shaped by the time in which it was written and traces the directions philosophical study has taken since.
The Linguistic Turn provides a rich and representative introduction to the entire historical and doctrinal range of the linguistic philosophy movement. In two retrospective essays titled “Ten Years After” and “Twenty-Five Years After,” Rorty shows how his book was shaped by the time in which it was written and traces the directions philosophical study has taken since.
Linguistic philosophy is the view that philosophical problems are problems which may be solved (or dissolved) either by reforming language, or by understanding more about the language we presently use. The former position is that of ideal language philosophy, the latter the position of ordinary language philosophy.
However, it is since the publication of Richard Rorty’s book, The Linguistic Turn: Recent Essays in Philosophical Method in 1967 that the use of the term began to be popularized. Far from being concerned with discerning the intrinsic meaning associated with a word, we are now confronted, as Wittgenstein (2001: 2) has highlighted, quoting Saint Augustine’s Confession, only with the use of.
Abstract. Contemporary philosophy is generally said to have taken a linguistic turn several decades ago. It was first charted, in the case of analytic philosophy, by Richard Rorty in a famous anthology. 1 And it is also said to have occurred, albeit much more recently, in the case of Continental philosophy, with deconstruction, the generalised pragmatics of Habermas and Apel, and Lyotard’s.
THE LINGUISTIC TURN Recent Essays in Philosophical Method Edited by Richard Rorty, Princeton University This book is designed to be useful to philoso-phers who oppose, as well as to those who sym-pathize with, the linguistic movement. It is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive col-lection of documents which exhibit the full.
Up to a point, the genesis of linguistic philosophy resembles the genesis of modernity itself; both suggest that contingency, uncertainty, individualism, and community are ineradicable parts of human existence to be theorized by 1 Richard Rorty, “Introduction,” in The Linguistic Turn: Recent Essays in Philosophical Method.