| Author | : Charles H. Long |
| Publisher | : Augsburg Fortress Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
An Advanced Introduction to Semantics
| Author | : Igor Mel'čuk |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 2020-04-02 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1108631630 |
This book is an advanced introduction to semantics that presents this crucial component of human language through the lens of the 'Meaning-Text' theory - an approach that treats linguistic knowledge as a huge inventory of correspondences between thought and speech. Formally, semantics is viewed as an organized set of rules that connect a representation of meaning (Semantic Representation) to a representation of the sentence (Deep-Syntactic Representation). The approach is particularly interesting for computer assisted language learning, natural language processing and computational lexicography, as our linguistic rules easily lend themselves to formalization and computer applications. The model combines abstract theoretical constructions with numerous linguistic descriptions, as well as multiple practice exercises that provide a solid hands-on approach to learning how to describe natural language semantics.
The Imaginary Institution of Society
| Author | : Cornelius Castoriadis |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 430 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780262531559 |
This is one of the most original and important works of contemporaryEuropean thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the major theoretical work of one of the foremost thinkers in Europe today. This is one of the most original and important works of contemporary European thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the major theoretical work of one of the foremost thinkers in Europe today. Castoriadis offers a brilliant and far-reaching analysis of the unique character of the social-historical world and its relations to the individual, to language, and to nature. He argues that most traditional conceptions of society and history overlook the essential feature of the social-historical world, namely that this world is not articulated once and for all but is in each case the creation of the society concerned. In emphasizing the element of creativity, Castoriadis opens the way for rethinking political theory and practice in terms of the autonomous and explicit self-institution of society.
Selling a 'Just' War
| Author | : M. Butler |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2012-02-14 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0230374980 |
Butler sheds light on how American political leaders sell the decision to intervene with military force to the public and how a just war frame is employed in US foreign policy. He provides three post-Cold War examples of foreign policy crises: the Persian Gulf War (1990-91), Kosovo (1999), and Afghanistan (2001).
Society and Psyche
| Author | : Kanakis Leledakis |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 2020-08-25 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 100032558X |
Providing interpretations and drawing critically from classical and modern social theory, post-structuralism, and psychoanalytic theory, this original study offers an alternative way of thinking about the social and the individual. It offers critical analyses of, among others, Marx, Giddens, Bourdieu, Derrida, Laclau and Mouffe, Castoriadis, Freud and modern psychoanalytic theorists, and considers their roles in advancing our present-day conceptualization of the social and the self. In theorizing that behaviour is both socially determined and autonomous, it avoids the impasses of either individualist or structuralist approaches.
Meaning, Subjectivity, Society
| Author | : Karl E. Smith |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2010-01-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9004190554 |
This book grapples with questions at the core of philosophy and social theory – Who am I? Who are we? How are we to live? That is, questions of what humans are capable of, the ‘nature’ of our relationships to each other and to the world around us, and how we should live. They appear to be both prohibitive and seductive – that they are ultimately irresolvable makes it tempting to leave them alone, yet we cannot do that either. This interdisciplinary investigation proceeds primarily as a dialogue with Cornelius Castoriadis and Charles Taylor.
The Felt Meanings of the World
| Author | : Quentin Smith |
| Publisher | : Purdue University Press |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Emotions (Philosophy). |
| ISBN | : 9780911198768 |
In a critical dialogue with the metaphysical tradition from Plato to Hegel to contemporary schools of thought, the author convincingly argues that traditional rationalist metaphysics has failed to accomplish its goal of demonstrating the existence of a divine cause and moral purpose of the world. To replace the defective rationalist metaphysics, the author builds a new metaphysics on the idea that moods and affects make manifest the world's felt meanings; he argues that each feature of the world is a felt meaning in the sense that each feature is a source of a feeling-response if and when it appears. The author asserts that we must synthesize our two ways of knowing-poetic evocations and exact analyses-in order to decide which mood or affect is the appropriate appreciation of any given feature of the world. Smith gives evocative and exact explications of such features as the world's temporality, appearance, and mind-independency, as these features appear in the appropriate recitations.
