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Derrida on Language and Philosophical Education
Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2020The relationship between national languages and schooling is a recurring theme in Derrida’s writings on education, playing an important role in the challenge he mounts to traditional understandings of the French State’s involvement in the teaching of philosophy.
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The Poetics of Philosophical Language
2011A close analysis of the Republic s diverse literary styles shows how the peculiarities of verbal texture in Platonic discourse can be explained by Plato s remolding of tropes and techniques from poetry and the Presocratics. This book argues that Plato smuggles poetic language into the Republic s prose in order to characterize the deceitful coloration ...
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On the Origins of Philosophical Language
1992My essay proposes an hypothesis regarding the evolution of one “idiom” of human language, namely, philosophical discourse. The feature of this discourse that I focus on is the prevalence of “high level” abstractions, such as “being” and “cause,” and the question addressed is: Why should such an ability have evolved in humans, that is, what value for ...
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