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The Invention of the Text

By Gianfranco Marrone

Book information

Publisher
Mimesis International
Year
2014
ISBN
8857526518, 9788857526515
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1070745 bytes)
Pages
200\0
Time added
2024-11-02 13:07:16

Description

The notion of text is perhaps the most used and discussed within social and human sciences. Nevertheless, it is surprisingly one of the worst defined. Philology and Linguistics, Literary Criticism and Aesthetics, Philosophy of Language, Hermeneutics, Ethnology, Psychoanalysis, Sociology, Semiotics: all these disciplines refer in various ways to the "text," to make of it the basic object of their analysis or to measure the distance they keep from it. So what does "text" mean? What genealogy does this concept have? Why is there no salvation outside the text ? This book shows why the text should be the formal model to explain all human, social, cultural and historic phenomena and, as a consequence, the product of a double invention: first as a sociocultural configuration, secondly as an analytical reconstruction."

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