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LANGUAGE AS CALCULUS
VS.
LANGUAGE AS UNIVERSAL MEDIUM
A Study in Husserl, Heidegger and Gadamer
MARTIN KUSCH
University of Oulu, Finland
The book applies a novel interpretational
framework in the philosophy of language to the
study of Husserl, Heidegger and Gadamer,
emphasizing the fundamental opposition in
Husserl's and Heidegger's views concerning
the relations between language and the world.
The author shows how Husserl's idea of
language as a re-interpretable sign-system
informs his whole philosophical project from
the early work on the philosophy of
mathematics to the late studies on the lifeworld.
The book also explains Heidegger's central
reasons for rejecting Husserl's conception of
language, the central tenets of Heidegger's
early as well as his late "thought" being
interpreted as so many corollaries of this
rejection. The book concludes with a discussion
of Gadamer's hermeneutics which is analyzed
as an attempt to avoid the extremities of both
Husserl and Heidegger. The study also
elaborates on similarities and differences
between these thinkers and classicists in the
analytical tradition such as Frege and Wittgenstein.
Audience
The work will interest students and scholars
working in the areas of the philosophy of
language, intentionality, literary theory and the
theory of interpretation.
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
DORDRECHT I BOSTON / LONDON