Philosophy of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature
by Jean-Jacques Lecercle
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Philosophy of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature Summary
| Why are we and, in particular, why are philosophers and linguists so fascinated by nonsense? Why do Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear appear in so many otherwise dull and dry academic books? In this amusing, yet rigorous new book, Jean-Jacques Lercercle shows how the genre of nonsense was constructed and why it has proved so enduring and enlightening for linguistics and philosophy. Lecercle claims that nonsense makes sense, philosophically speaking. Nonsense texts reverse the usual positioning of text by reading their theory in advance: they are the reflexive, active interface between literature, linguistics and philosophy of language. Nonsense texts, like all texts, must be read in the light of philosophical and linguistic concepts, but they turn the theory back upon itself to open up new ways of thinking and theorizing about language. The Philosophy of Nonsense examines the philosophical pillars which structure the nonsense text, but also explores the innovative philosophy which nonsense gives rise to. Lercercle asserts that this new philosophy is no less than a confrontational reappraisal of the analytic and continental traditions of the philosophy of language. |
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