Philosophical Papers
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage and some loss. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding: Intact but worn at corners and spine.
At the heart of twentieth-century analytic philosophy stands the towering figure of J. L. Austin, whose razor-sharp intellect and meticulous attention to ordinary language transformed the discipline entirely. Philosophical Papers gathers his most celebrated essays into a single authoritative volume, covering topics that range from truth and knowledge to perception, excuses, and the nature of speech acts — each argument unfolding with a precision and wit that few philosophers have matched before or since. Edited posthumously by J. O. Urmson and G. J. Warnock, this collection preserves Austin's singular voice and method: a patient, almost forensic dissection of the words we use and the assumptions we smuggle within them. His work laid the groundwork for the philosophy of language as a formal discipline, and essays such as A Plea for Excuses and Performative Utterances remain required reading in philosophy courses worldwide. Whether one approaches Austin as a novice or a seasoned scholar, the question his work inevitably provokes lingers long after the final page — just how much of what we think we know is merely a trick of language?
Author: J. L. Austin
Format: Hardback
Published: 1962, Oxford University Press
Genre: Philosophy
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage and some loss. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding: Intact but worn at corners and spine.
At the heart of twentieth-century analytic philosophy stands the towering figure of J. L. Austin, whose razor-sharp intellect and meticulous attention to ordinary language transformed the discipline entirely. Philosophical Papers gathers his most celebrated essays into a single authoritative volume, covering topics that range from truth and knowledge to perception, excuses, and the nature of speech acts — each argument unfolding with a precision and wit that few philosophers have matched before or since. Edited posthumously by J. O. Urmson and G. J. Warnock, this collection preserves Austin's singular voice and method: a patient, almost forensic dissection of the words we use and the assumptions we smuggle within them. His work laid the groundwork for the philosophy of language as a formal discipline, and essays such as A Plea for Excuses and Performative Utterances remain required reading in philosophy courses worldwide. Whether one approaches Austin as a novice or a seasoned scholar, the question his work inevitably provokes lingers long after the final page — just how much of what we think we know is merely a trick of language?