Aspects of the Transcendental Phenomenology of Language

• Authors: Hart James G
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Transcendental Phenomenology of language wrestles with the relationship of language to mind’s manifestation of being. Of special interest is the sense in which language is, like one’s embodiment, a medium of manifestation. Not only does it permit sharing the world because words as worldly things embody meanings that can be the same for everyone; not only does speaking manifest to others the common world from the speaker’s perspective; but also speaking, as a meaning to say, may achieve the manifestation of the world also for the speaker herself. This requires finding the right words to form true propositions in a well-formed sentences. The manifest telos of proposition-rendering sentences is adumbrated and founded in the infant’s elemental formation of simple phonemic identity syntheses and syntax. This instinctual dynamism is founded in what Husserl names “the idea of truth” which supports the thesis of a universal language instinct.

Keywords

EN

Husserl; Sokolowski; manifestation; truth; teleology; proposition; instinct

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 1(7)
• Pages: 6–29

Dates

published

2019-04-19

Contributors

author

Hart James G

• Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/eidos.jpc.2019.0002