Arresting Language: From Leibniz to Benjamin

by Peter Fenves

Book Overview

Speech act theory has taught us "how to do things with words." Arresting Language turns its attention in the opposite direction--toward the surprising things that language can undo and leave undone. In the eight essays of this volume, arresting language is seen as language at rest, words no longer in service to the project of establishing conventions or instituting legal regimes. Concentrating on both widely known and seldom-read...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804739595
• ISBN13: 9780804739597
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"