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"Texts Without Referents" offers a detailed and systematic theory of human culture, ranging across both Anglo-American and Continental European philosophy, and their allied disciplines. In it Joseph Margolis provides an account of history and interpretation and the ontology of cultural entities (persons, artefacts, artworks, words and sentences, actions, institutions, societies). Central to the book is the question of the coherent relationship between the human and the natural sciences. The author elaborates a theory that may be said to question, and challenge, the traditional emphasis given in the Western philosophical canon to the subordination of the human sciences to the physical sciences. Margolis' strategy is to show the strong conceptual evidence offered by such diverse movements as pragmatism, naturalism, phenomenology, deconstruction, Marxism, Frankfurt Critical Theory, hermeneutics, and Wittgensteinian and Nietzschean currents, for overturning this ranking. Margolis argues that it is the physical sciences that depend on the human for their distinctive rigour, and that they need to be brought under the larger constraints of social existence if, together, they are to yield a coherent and comprehensive picture of the full powers of human inquiry. This, the third volume in Margolis' trilogy, brings the issues of the first two volumes together, reworking them within a general theory of cultural life. A number of strategic questions are examined, including the nature of texts, reference, selves, praxis, thinking, and historical time. Expansive and challenging, it represents the climax to an ambitious reassessment of the relationship, within the world of culture, between the natural and the human sciences, and a reassessment of the complexities of human existence. The books is aimed at students and specialists in philosophy, social theory and the philosophy of culture.

The synthetic proposition examines the impact of Civil Rights, Black Power, the student, feminist and sexual-liberty movements on conceptualism and its legacies in the United States between the late 1960s and the 1990s. It focuses on the turn to political reference in practices originally concerned with abstract ideas, as articulated by Joseph Kosuth, and traces key strategies in contemporary art to the reciprocal influences of conceptualism and identity politics: movements that have so far been historicised as mutually exclusive. The book demonstrates that while identity-based strategies were particular, their impact spread far beyond the individuals or communities that originated them. It offers a study of Adrian Piper, David Hammons, Renée Green, Mary Kelly, Martha Rosler, Silvia Kolbowski, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Lorna Simpson, Hans Haacke, Andrea Fraser and Charles Gaines. By turning to social issues, these artists analysed the conventions of language, photography, moving image, installation and display.

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The synthetic proposition examines the impact of Civil Rights, Black Power, the student, feminist and sexual-liberty movements on conceptualism and its legacies in the United States between the late 1960s and the 1990s. It focuses on the turn to political reference in practices originally concerned with abstract ideas, as articulated by Joseph Kosuth, and traces key strategies in contemporary art to the reciprocal influences of conceptualism and identity politics: movements that have so far been historicised as mutually exclusive. The book demonstrates that while identity-based strategies were particular, their impact spread far beyond the individuals or communities that originated them. It offers a study of Adrian Piper, David Hammons, Renée Green, Mary Kelly, Martha Rosler, Silvia Kolbowski, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Lorna Simpson, Hans Haacke, Andrea Fraser and Charles Gaines. By turning to social issues, these artists analysed the conventions of language, photography, moving image, installation and display.

The zero coding of referents or other clausal constituents is one of the most natural, communicatively and cognitively-transparent grammatical devices in human language. Together with its functional equivalent, obligatory pronominal agreement, zero is both extremely widespread cross-linguistically and highly frequent in natural text. In the domain of reference, zero represents, somewhat paradoxically, either anaphorically-governed high continuity or cataphorically-governed low topicality. And whether in conjoined/chained or syntactically-subordinate clauses, zero is extremely well-governed, at a level approaching 100% in natural text. The naturalness, cross-language ubiquity and well-governedness of zero have been largely obscured by an approach that, for 30-odd years, has considered it a typological exotica, the so-called "pro-drop" associated with a dubious "non-configurational" language type. The main aim of this book is to reaffirm the naturalness, universality and well-governedness of zero by studying it from four closely related perspectives: (i) cognitive and communicative function; (ii) natural-text distribution; (iii) cross-language typological distribution; and (iv) the diachronic rise of referent coding devices. The latter is particularly central to our understanding the functional interplay between zero anaphora, pronominal agreement and related referent-coding devices.

Why does Matthew use Lady Wisdom as a figure of speech for speculation on Jesus' life and teaching? By what process does Matthew transform the symbol of Lady Wisdom so that its referent becomes Jesus? Whom does this serve? In which social context does this occur? How does a metaphor shift so that the content is located not in an imaginary woman but in a historical male?This original study uses redaction criticism and composition criticism, drawing also on methods and insights from literary criticism and from the social sciences and feminist biblical studies; examines texts from late biblical and early Jewish literature where Lady Wisdom appears; discusses the function of Lady Wisdom against the backdrop of the nature of metaphor itself and in the context of the learned groups in which Lady Wisdom appears; studies the relevant passages in Matthew's Gospel and its use of the metaphor to express an understanding of Jesus' life and ministry; examines Matthew's portrayal of Jesus as Teacher and the ways in which the evangelist uses the Wisdom metaphor to articulate his interpretation of Jesus' teaching; and presents the figure of the teacher in Matthew's community and the relationship between teachers, Jesus-Wisdom, and the portrayal of Jesus' disciples in Matthew's Gospel.

In six elegant, linked literary essays, Berry considers the degeneration of language that is manifest throughout our culture, from poetry to politics, from conversation to advertising, and he shows how the ever-widening cleft between the words and their referents mirrors the increasing isolation of individuals and their communities from the land. "This skillfully conceived book is one of the strongest contemporary arguments for literary tradition: a challenging credo, un-glib, calmly assured, clearly illuminating―and required reading for those seriously interested in the interplay between literature, ethics, and morality." ―Kirkus Reviews

L'analyse linguistique antique n'est pas l'amorce de la moderne: c'en est une autre, entierement differente. Chaque detail peut trouver des echos dans les analyses modernes: la tripartition signifiant-signifie-referent de l'Ancien Stoicisme, les interrogations sur la fonction informative de la langue, la conception de la parole comme acte, de la langue comme systeme ou comme corpus, etc. Mais l'interet veritable de ces details ne se situe que dans leur rapport a l'ensemble auquel ils appartiennent. C'est en cela qu'il est simplificateur de ne chercher dans l'Antiquite que des sources de la pensee moderne. L'interet primordial de l'Antiquite est heuristique: il s'agit de decouvrir comment sont constituees d'autres organisations du savoir. L'analyse qui est presentee ici se fonde sur un ensemble de textes theoriques en traduction originale. Les uns sont tres connus, les autres beaucoup moins. Tous sont assez etendus pour restituer a une doctrine ou a une polemique sa reelle densite. La traduction de ces textes permet au lecteur moderne de saisir directement la diversite et la complexite de la pensee linguistique des Anciens.

Why does Matthew use Lady Wisdom as a figure of speech for speculation on Jesus' life and teaching? By what process does Matthew transform the symbol of Lady Wisdom so that its referent becomes Jesus? Whom does this serve? In which social context does this occur? How does a metaphor shift so that the content is located not in an imaginary woman but in a historical male?This original study uses redaction criticism and composition criticism, drawing also on methods and insights from literary criticism and from the social sciences and feminist biblical studies; examines texts from late biblical and early Jewish literature where Lady Wisdom appears; discusses the function of Lady Wisdom against the backdrop of the nature of metaphor itself and in the context of the learned groups in which Lady Wisdom appears; studies the relevant passages in Matthew's Gospel and its use of the metaphor to express an understanding of Jesus' life and ministry; examines Matthew's portrayal of Jesus as Teacher and the ways in which the evangelist uses the Wisdom metaphor to articulate his interpretation of Jesus' teaching; and presents the figure of the teacher in Matthew's community and the relationship between teachers, Jesus-Wisdom, and the portrayal of Jesus' disciples in Matthew's Gospel.

The zero coding of referents or other clausal constituents is one of the most natural, communicatively and cognitively-transparent grammatical devices in human language. Together with its functional equivalent, obligatory pronominal agreement, zero is both extremely widespread cross-linguistically and highly frequent in natural text. In the domain of reference, zero represents, somewhat paradoxically, either anaphorically-governed high continuity or cataphorically-governed low topicality. And whether in conjoined/chained or syntactically-subordinate clauses, zero is extremely well-governed, at a level approaching 100% in natural text. The naturalness, cross-language ubiquity and well-governedness of zero have been largely obscured by an approach that, for 30-odd years, has considered it a typological exotica, the so-called "pro-drop" associated with a dubious "non-configurational" language type. The main aim of this book is to reaffirm the naturalness, universality and well-governedness of zero by studying it from four closely related perspectives: (i) cognitive and communicative function; (ii) natural-text distribution; (iii) cross-language typological distribution; and (iv) the diachronic rise of referent coding devices. The latter is particularly central to our understanding the functional interplay between zero anaphora, pronominal agreement and related referent-coding devices.

L'analyse linguistique antique n'est pas l'amorce de la moderne: c'en est une autre, entierement differente. Chaque detail peut trouver des echos dans les analyses modernes: la tripartition signifiant-signifie-referent de l'Ancien Stoicisme, les interrogations sur la fonction informative de la langue, la conception de la parole comme acte, de la langue comme systeme ou comme corpus, etc. Mais l'interet veritable de ces details ne se situe que dans leur rapport a l'ensemble auquel ils appartiennent. C'est en cela qu'il est simplificateur de ne chercher dans l'Antiquite que des sources de la pensee moderne. L'interet primordial de l'Antiquite est heuristique: il s'agit de decouvrir comment sont constituees d'autres organisations du savoir. L'analyse qui est presentee ici se fonde sur un ensemble de textes theoriques en traduction originale. Les uns sont tres connus, les autres beaucoup moins. Tous sont assez etendus pour restituer a une doctrine ou a une polemique sa reelle densite. La traduction de ces textes permet au lecteur moderne de saisir directement la diversite et la complexite de la pensee linguistique des Anciens.

Jose Pardo is one of the most important blues artists out there. Born and raised in Argentina in 1981, he quicky stablished himself as one of the music referents of his hometown. Living in Madrid for 6 years now, he's been writing his own songs and writing his own history while leading several famous Blues groups and playing guitar for Chicago Blues legends all over the world. All those livings took Jose to a different level of writing and composing his own music. Yes, Blues and his virtuoso gui