Wittgenstein, Heidegger and the Limits of Language
Standish, Paul (Senior Lecturer in English, University of Birmingham)
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Hardback
288 pages
Published: 1992
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group
ISBN / EAN: 1856282716
Explores contrasting conceptions of "language and its limits". Aspects of the prevailing positivism are criticised and this extends to an examination of the wayward use of language in education. The book draws on the work of Heidegger and Wittgenstein, a