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First published in 1990, this book argues that any theory of language constructs its `object¿ by separating `relevant¿ from `irrelevant¿ phenomena ¿ excluding the latter. This leaves a `remainder¿ which consists of the untidy, creative part of how language is used ¿ the essence of poetry and metaphor. Although this remainder can never be completely formalised, it must be fully recognised by any true account of language and thus this book attem...

This book explores the other side of language, where words are incoherent and meaning fails us. It argues that this shadey side of language is more important in our everyday speech than linguists and philosophers recognize.

This book explores the other side of language, where words are incoherent and meaning fails us. It argues that this shadey side of language is more important in our everyday speech than linguists and philosophers recognize.

IArchitecture and Philosophy: New Perspectives on the Work of Arakawa and Madeline Gins /Iis a collection of essays on the work of architect Arakawa and poet Madeline Gins and in particular their book IArchitectural Body/I (2000). The essays approach their cutting edge and ambitious project to design 'an architecture against death' from various angles and disciplines including aesthetics, architecture, linguistics, philosophy. The papers retra...

Assesses and contrasts the reading styles of two major French philosophers, Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze.

Frankenstein è un affascinante mito moderno. Ma proprio per questo è soggetto ad un paradosso: in quanto mito, è atemporale, in quanto moderno, esso è storicizzabile, ha un autore, una data di nascita, delle fonti. Il testo di Lecercle si sviluppa per questo su un doppio binario. Se da una parte è infatti possibile studiare il sorgere del mito, il suo imprimersi nell'immaginario collettivo ed i motivi della sua forza mitica, dall'altra bisogna...

The construction of a Marxist theory of language as a social, material and political phenomenon .

The book is a critique of dominant views of language (Chomsky's research programme in linguistics, Habermas's philosophy of ). It rehearses the fragmentary Marxist tradition about language and proposes a series of concepts for a coherent philosophy of language within Marxism.