2018 - 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0618-4081-01 | Political Philosophy of Language | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language was traditionally conceived as a passive tool for representing the world, a tool that resides in the mind and enables individuals to transmit their thoughts to one another. In the 20th century, alternative conceptions of language were developed, and an emphasis was put on the social nature of language and on the essential relation between language and our action and engagement in the world. This turn opened the way for articulating thinking of language from the point of view of political theory. In the seminar we’ll discuss several such positions: Wittgensteinian, Marxist and postmodernist.