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Philosophical Papers by J. L. Austin 9780192830210
RRP: €63.07Booksplease Price: €51.12The influence of J. L. Austin on contemporary philosophy was substantial during his lifetime, and has grown greatly since his death, at the height of his powers, in 1960. Philosophical Papers, first... -
J. L. Austin on Language by B. Garvey 9781137329981
Booksplease Price: €55.07Looking at the work of J.L. Austin, who subjected language to a close and intense analysis, this book deals with his examination of the various things we do with words, and with the philosophical... -
The Philosophy of J. L. Austin by Martin Gustafsson 9780199219759
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €85.38These new essays on J. L. Austin's philosophy constitute the first major study of his thought in decades. Eight leading philosophers join together to present a fresh evaluation of his distinctive... -
J. L. Austin on Language by B. Garvey 9781349460786
Booksplease Price: €55.62Looking at the work of J.L. Austin, who subjected language to a close and intense analysis, this book deals with his examination of the various things we do with words, and with the philosophical... -
How to Do Things with Words by J L Austin 9781773239668
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €11.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773239668Author J L AustinFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have... -
Interpreting J. L. Austin: Critical Essays by Savas L. Tsohatzidis 9781107125902
Booksplease Price: €118.32In this volume, Savas L. Tsohatzidis brings together a team of leading experts to provide up-to-date perspectives on the work of J. L. Austin, a major figure in twentieth-century philosophy and an... -
Our Word Is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts by Marianne Constable
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.71Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong. When speech goes wrong, law often steps in as itself a speech act or... -
Interpreting J. L. Austin: Critical Essays by Savas L. Tsohatzidis 9781107565692
Booksplease Price: €38.22In this volume, Savas L. Tsohatzidis brings together a team of leading experts to provide up-to-date perspectives on the work of J. L. Austin, a major figure in twentieth-century philosophy and an... -
Symposium on J. L. Austin (Routledge Revivals) K T Fann 9780415681209
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.66JL Austin (1911-1960) exercised in Post-war Oxford an intellectual authority similar to that of Wittgenstein in Cambridge. Although he completed no books of his own and published only seven papers,... -
Our Word Is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts by Marianne Constable 9780804774932
RRP: €104.72Booksplease Price: €84.66Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong. When speech goes wrong, law often steps in as itself a speech act or... -
Paper Machine by Jacques Derrida
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85This book questions the book itself, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals. Derrida questions what takes place between the paper... -
Technics and Time, 2: Disorientation by Bernard Stiegler 9780804730129
RRP: €123.76Booksplease Price: €99.54Disorientation is the first publication in English of the second volume of Technics and Time, in which French philosopher Bernard Stiegler engages in a close dialogue with Husserl, Derrida, and other... -
J. L. Austin: Philosopher and D-Day Intelligence Officer by M. W. Rowe
Booksplease Price: €37.13The first biography of the philosopher who became a mastermind of Allied intelligence in World War Two. Austere, witty, and formidable, J. L. Austin (1911-1960) was the leader of Oxford Ordinary... -
Seeing as Practice: Philosophical Investigations into the Relation Between Sight and Insight by Eva Schuermann 9783030145064
Booksplease Price: €84.35This study provides an overview of philosophical questions relating to sight and vision. It discusses the intertwinement of seeing and ways of seeing against the background of an entirely different... -
Technics and Time, 2: Disorientation by Bernard Stiegler
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €25.16Disorientation is the first publication in English of the second volume of Technics and Time, in which French philosopher Bernard Stiegler engages in a close dialogue with Husserl, Derrida, and other... -
John Donne's Performances: Sermons, Poems, Letters and Devotions by Margret Fetzer
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.01Ever since their rediscovery in the 1920s, John Donne's writings have been praised for their energy, vigour and drama - yet so far, no attempt has been made to approach and define systematically... -
The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages by Shoshana Felman
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85What is a promise? What are the consequences of the act of promising? In this bold yet subtle meditation, the author contemplates the seductive promise of speech and the seductive promise of love... -
How to Do Things with Words: The William James Lectures delivered in Harvard University in 1955 by J. L. Austin 9780192812056
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €48.49This work sets out Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts for at least the last ten years of his life. Starting from an exhaustive examination of his already... -
A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60 by Nikhil Krishnan
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.91A Telegraph Best Summer Book of 2023 A New York Times 'Critics' Pick' Book of 2023 What are the limits of language? How to bring philosophy closer to everyday life? What is a good human being? ... -
Literary Theory After Davidson by Reed Way Dasenbrock
RRP: €33.26Booksplease Price: €31.49Donald Davidson is probably the most eminent living analytic philosopher, and his writings in philosophy of language and philosophy of action have shaped much of the recent work in both these fields... -
Chuck, Appearance and Reality: Everyday Philosophy in a TV Spy Comedy Kelly Dean Jolley 9781804132357
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €99.88How can we know the minds of others? How can we make our own mind known? On the face of it, Chuck appears to be fun and funny network TV show merging spy thriller with romantic comedy, a piece of... -
Domenico's Istanbul by Domenico 9780906094365
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €81.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906094365Author J. L. AustinFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Gibb Memorial TrustPublisher Gibb... -
Jane Austen and Other Minds: Ordinary Language Philosophy in Literary Fiction by Eric Reid Lindstrom 9781009206990
RRP: €92.82Booksplease Price: €89.17Jane Austen's fiction is itself philosophy, a fact to which Stanley Cavell attested when he honored his philosophical teacher, J. L. Austin, through homage to her and her work. Engaging equally in... -
The Present Personal: Philosophy and the Hidden Face of Language by Hagi Kenaan 9780231133500
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €52.66Is philosophy deaf to the sound of the personal voice? While philosophy is experienced at admiring, resenting, celebrating, and, at times, renouncing language, philosophers have rarely succeeded in... -
Austin's Way with Skepticism: An Essay on Philosophical Method by Mark Kaplan 9780198824855
Booksplease Price: €98.56J. L. Austin is famous for writing as if he thought it a condition, on the adequacy of what we say while doing epistemology, that it accord faithfully with what we would say in ordinary circumstances... -
Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays by David Schalkwyk 9780521811156
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €97.60David Schalkwyk offers a sustained reading of Shakespeare's sonnets in relation to his plays. He argues that the language of the sonnets is primarily performative rather than descriptive, and bases... -
Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance by W. B. Worthen 9780521810302
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €102.51Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance asks a central theoretical question in the study of drama: what is the relationship between the dramatic text and the meanings of performance?... -
Isaiah Berlin and his Philosophical Contemporaries by Johnny Lyons 9783030731779
RRP: €130.89Booksplease Price: €121.62This book sets out to identify the nature and implications of a proper understanding of pluralism in a original and illuminating way. Isaiah Berlin believed that a recognition of pluralism is vital... -
Philosophical Passages: Wittgenstein, Emerson, Austin, Derrida Stanley Cavell (Harvard University) 9780631192718
RRP: €53.49Booksplease Price: €50.23In this most recent collection of his writing, Cavell provides extraordinary careful and sustained readings of Emerson's "Fate", Derrida's response to J. L. Austin in "Signature Event Context", and... -
The Novel as Event by Mario Ortiz-Robles 9780472051137
Booksplease Price: €40.32The Novel as Event is a timely reconsideration of the historical role of the Victorian novel from the perspective of its performativity. In a highly original application of the work of Jacques... -
Speech Acts and Literary Theory Sandy Petrey 9781138689749
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27This book, first published in 1990, combines an introduction to speech-act theory as developed by J. L. Austin with a survey of critical essays that have adapted Austin's thought for literary... -
Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology A. P. Martinich (University of Texas, USA) 9781444335705
RRP: €36.83Booksplease Price: €30.01Featuring updates and the inclusion of nine new chapters, Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology, 2nd Edition offers a comprehensive and authoritative collection of the most influential readings in... -
Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary: Language and Morality in J.L. Austin’s Philosophy by Niklas Forsberg 9781032112466
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27This 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... -
The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophy by Bernard Williams 9780691134086
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €41.23Before his death in 2003, Bernard Williams planned to publish a collection of historical essays, focusing primarily on the ancient world. This posthumous volume brings together a much wider... -
Contemporary Analytic and Linguistic Philosophies by E. D. Klemke 9781573928076
Booksplease Price: €25.38This new, second edition of the popular college textbook offers the beginning philosophy student a comprehensive introduction to several aspects of one of the most influential schools of thought in... -
J.L. Austin and the Law: Exculpation and the Explication of Responsibility by Daniel Yeager 9781611482331
Booksplease Price: €96.07In investigating the relationship between accusation and excuse, this study uncovers something about the criminal law's peculiar way of interpreting human action. Identifying that something can move... -
Stanley Cavell on Aesthetic Understanding by Garry L. Hagberg 9783319974651
Booksplease Price: €133.78This book investigates the scope and significance of Stanley Cavell's lifelong and lasting contribution to aesthetic understanding. Focusing on various strands of the rich body of Cavell's... -
On Empson by Michael Wood 9780691163765
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €22.10From one of today's most distinguished critics, a beautifully written exploration of one of the twentieth century's most important literary critics Are literary critics writers? As Michael Wood... -
Stanley Cavell on Aesthetic Understanding by Garry L. Hagberg 9783030073602
RRP: €95.19Booksplease Price: €90.20This book investigates the scope and significance of Stanley Cavell's lifelong and lasting contribution to aesthetic understanding. Focusing on various strands of the rich body of Cavell's... -
The Poet's Mistake by Erica McAlpine 9780691203478
RRP: €130.90Booksplease Price: €111.60What our tendency to justify the mistakes in poems reveals about our faith in poetry-and about how we readKeats mixed up Cortez and Balboa. Heaney misremembered the name of one of Wordsworth's lakes...