30.425, Books: Abdication of the Sovereign Self: Spano

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Subject: Abdication of the Sovereign Self: Spano

 


Title: Abdication of the Sovereign Self 
Subtitle: The Psycholinguistics of Invalid Synthetic Propositions 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.cambridgescholars.com/
	

Book URL: https://cambridgescholars.com/abdication-of-the-sovereign-self/ 


Author: Andrew Spano

Hardback: ISBN:  9781527516427 Pages: 514 Price: U.K. £ 81.99


Abstract:

Language and logic are inextricably commingled in our everyday speech. What we
say, particularly in the form of statements, tends not only to mirror our
world, but mold it into our own image. This book looks at how much of our
verbal communication can be considered “valid” from the point of view of the
rules of logic. Are we saying what we mean to say? Is what we hear from the
media, our peers, our leaders, and those who determine the narrative “story”
of our lives meaningful, rational, and logical? Even more important than the
answers to these questions is the answer to whether we are the governors and
rulers of our own lives. Have we abdicated this sovereign rule to forces that
may not have our best interests and wellbeing in mind? 

Using works of Continental and analytic philosophy ancient and modern,
psychology, linguistics, religion, and literature, this book supports the
thesis that we have surrendered the only thing we could ever possibly own –
ourselves – for unprecedented access to consumer goods, credit, and the hope
for medical immortality. Further, the argument is made that the prevailing
discourse of global modern culture consists of statements which are invalid
because their inner semantic structure is inherently contradictory. The
argument is aimed at those who want to learn more about what makes our
everyday discourse and thinking rational or irrational. At the same time, it
indicts the individual of the modern industrialized state for the crime of the
voluntary abdication of his sovereignty and for forcing others who have little
control over their lives to do the same. This book is a call for introspection
in the hope that the reader will see something of the situation described
reflected not only in himself, but in the society he inhabits.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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