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The Archeology of the Frivolous: Reading Condillac

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In 1746 the French philosophe Condillac published his Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, one of many attempts during the century to determine how we organize and validate ideas as knowledge. In investigating language, especially written language, he found not only the seriousness he sought but also a great deal of frivolity whose relation to the sober business of philosophy had to be addressed somehow. If the mind truly reflects the world, and language reflects the mind, why is there so much error and nonsense? Whence the distortions? How can they be remedied?In The Archeology of the Frivolous, Jacques Derrida recoups Condillac's enterprise, showing how it anticipated--consciously or not--many of the issues that have since stymied epistemology and linguistic philosophy. If anyone doubts that deconstruction can be a powerful analytic method, try this.
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Year:
1980
Edition:
1st
Publisher:
Duquesne University Press
Language:
English
Pages:
143
ISBN 10:
0391016369
ISBN 13:
9780391016361
ISBN:
0391016369,9780391016361
Series:
Duquesne Studies: Philosophical Series 37

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