The Fateful Discourse of Wordly Things

by David Halliburton

This broad interdisciplinary and comparative study of the ways in which we discursively "make" the world and its things aims to go beyond the "poetic thinking" of Heidegger toward a more pragmatic way of interpreting concrete social, cultural, and political experience.

The book outlines three constitutive functions of world-making. Endowing signifies the direct provision of the "wherewithal" that must come into being if anything else...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804727724
• ISBN13: 9780804727723
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"