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The book is based on the proceedings of the conference on 'Philosophy, Language and the Political - Reevaluating Poststructuralism' held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, on the 10th, 11th and 12th December 2014. Several scholars from India and abroad participated in it. The book comprises 17 papers that were presented at the event, besides three additional papers, plus a Preface by Marc Crepon, as well as a description of the conference and a thematic ...
Language, Discourse and Culture: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives includes 14 essays written over a period of seven years. The nature of their contents oscillates between the pedagogical and the critical. As their quite style migh suggest, these articles are not intended to be splashy interventions in the current intellectual scence. Nonetheless, the author's detailed knowledge of contemporary post-structural and postmodern modes of though is always in ...
This monograph is a sustained presentation of some of the contemporary theoretical perspectives on narratives, literary or otherwise. The reader does obtain a learned account of the fascinating work going on in the area that one may call by the hyphenated term ‘literature-philosophy’. Writing is here seen as that transgressive activity which overcomes both philosophy, as well as literature itself. This book is also about narratives. It is perhaps true that ...