{"product_id":"2026100007982-secondhand-philosophical-papers","title":"Philosophical Papers","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: repr.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\n\nEdited 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130698539227,"sku":"2026100007982-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/b9af725c-1053-4973-9a0a-f7702c86ad69.png?v=1786588790","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007982-secondhand-philosophical-papers","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}