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Arresting Language: From Leibniz to Benjamin - Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Peter Fenves
Arresting Language: From Leibniz to Benjamin - Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Peter Fenves
Speech act theory has taught us how to do things with words. "Arresting Language" turns its attention in the opposite direction toward the surprising things that language can undo and leave undone. In the eight essays of this volume, arresting language is seen as language at rest.
436 pages, 1 half-tone
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | November 1, 2002 |
ISBN13 | 9780804739597 |
Publishers | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 400 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 28 mm · 721 g |
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