Labyrinths of Language

Thirteen essays in the book explore and investigate diverse contemporary philosophically current themes and issues. The book critically presents the views of a wide range of philosophically and analytically oriented authors.

Franson Manjali serves as Professor of Linguistics and Semiotics at Jawarharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His previous publications include: Nuclear Semantics: Towards a Theory of Relational Meaning; Meaning, Culture and Cognition; Literature and Infinity; Language, Discource and Culture; Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives.

Introduction 1. The 'Social' and the 'Cognitive' in Language: A Reading of Saussure and Beyond 2. Between the Self and the Other: Language after Levinas 3. On Language and the Assumed Unity of the Human Sciences 4. Between Pragmatics and Deconstruction: Wittgenstein, Bakhtin and Derrida 5. Time, Language and the Destruction of Power 6. Kafka: Literature, Law and Language 7. Blanchot, Writing and the Politico-Religious 8. The Discourse of Death 9. The Body of Sense, the Sense of Body 10. Towards a Philosophy of Image 11. Culture and Politics in the Novel: On the Banks of the River Mahe 12. Globalization of English and the Indian Linguistic Context 13. Beginnings of Modern Linguistics and the Colonial Context: Perspectives from History, Culture and Religion