How To Do Things With Words
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780198241812 (019824181X)
Publish date: December 1962
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Academic,
School,
Humanities,
Language,
Literature,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
20th Century,
Philosophy,
College,
Theory
1) The distinctions Austin makes are useful.2) The distinctions don't hold up.3) The collapse of the distinctions is useful.
I happened to run into Bill Bryson the other evening on a deserted street somewhere in Geneva. On impulse, as one does, I mugged him and stole his latest manuscript. It turned out to be a potted history of philosophy. Here's an extract for your delectation.Once upon a time, there was a philosopher c...
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