Publication

2012 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California

Language

English

Word Count

43,250 words, Guess

Page Count

173 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780520273955
  • ISBN-139780520273962
  • ISBN-100520273958
  • ISBN-100520273966
  • Library of Congress Control Number2012013883
and 5 more
  • OCLC Control Number784125988
  • Better World Books9780520273955
  • Better World Books9780520273962
  • Better World BooksW8-AQG-364
  • Open LibraryOL25276715M

Classifications

  • DDC781.1/7
  • LCCML3800 .K716 2012
  • LCCML3800.K716 2012

Description

Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. Expression and Truth rejects this opposition and proposes fluid new models of expression, truth, and knowledge with broad application to the humanities. These models derive from five theses that connect expression to description, cognition, the presence and absence of speech, and the conjunction of address and reply. The theses are linked by a concentration on musical expression, regarded as the ideal case of expression in general, and by fresh readings of Ludwig Wittgenstein's scattered but important remarks about music. The result is a new conception of expression as a primary means of knowing, acting on, and forming the world [Publisher description]

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