Speaking from Elsewhere

A New Contextualist Perspective on Meaning, Identity, and Discursive Agency

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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Develops a contextualist view of identity, agency, and discursive practices.In Speaking from Elsewhere, author JoseŒ Medina argues for the critical and transformative power of speech from marginalized locations by articulating a contextualist view of meaning, identity, and agency. This contextualism draws from different philosophical traditions (Wittgenstein, pragmatism, and feminist theory) and crosses disciplinary boundaries (philosophy, cultural studies, women's studies, and sociology) to underscore both the diversity of voices and viewpoints and the openness of discursive contexts and practices. Expressing a robust notion of discursive responsibility, Medina contends that, as speakers and members of linguistic communities, we cannot elude the obligation to open up discursive spaces for new voices and to facilitate new dialogues that break silences and empower marginalized voices.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-06-01
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt345 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor246
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791469163

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Contextualizing Meaning 1.1 The Indeterminacy of Meaning: "Unnatural Doubts" and "Theoretical Diagnosis"1.2 Wittgenstein as a Theoretical Diagnostician: Overcoming the Temptations of Reification and Decontextualization1.3 Contextual Determinacy: Wittgenstein and Dewey on Meaning and Agreement1.4 Meaning in Context: Semantic Stability and Semantic Change1.5 Sustaining Agreement in Action: Normalcy and Eccentricity1.6 A View from Elsewhere2. Contextualizing Identity 2.1 The Hegelian Connection: Identity, Difference, and Polyphony2.1.a The Dialectics of Recognition2.1.b To Be and Not to Be: This Mess Called My Identity2.2 The Flourishing of Voices and Their Domestication3. Contextualizing Agency 3.1 Fighting Philosophical Myths about Discursive Agency3.2 On Having a Voice: Uncontrollability, Polyphony, and a Hybrid View of Agency and Responsibility3.3 The Scandal of Our Agency: Agency without Sovereignty and the Possibility of Transgression4. Speaking from Elsewhere: Silence, Exclusion, and Marginality 4.1 Contextualism and the Hermeneutics of Silence4.2 Making Sense of Radical Silences and Exclusions: A Polyphonic Perspective4.3 Spaces of Intelligibility and Marginality4.4 Speaking from the MarginsNotesReferencesIndex