Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary: Language and Morality in J.L. Austin’s Philosophy

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Niklas Forsberg

Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary

Language and Morality in J.L. Austin’s Philosophy

Niklas Forsberg

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Routledge
29 January 2024

Philosophy of language; Literary studies: general; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Ethics & moral philosophy

Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy

This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of J.L. Austin’s philosophy. It opens new ways of thinking about ethics and other contemporary issues in the wake of Austin’s philosophical work.

Austin is primarily viewed as a philosopher of language whose work focused on the pragmatic aspects of speech. His work on ordinary language philosophy and speech act theory is seen as his main contribution to philosophy. This book challenges this received view to show that Austin used his most well-known theoretical notions as heuristic tools aimed at debunking the fact/value dichotomy. Additionally, it demonstrates that Austin’s continual returns to the ordinary is rooted in a desire to show that our lives in language are complicated and multifaceted. What emerges is an attempt to think with Austin about problems that are central to philosophy today—such as the question about linguistic inheritance, truth, the relationship between a language inherited and morality, and how we are to cope with linguistic elasticity and historicity.

Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on Austin’s philosophy, philosophy of language, and the history of analytic philosophy.

By: Niklas Forsberg
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 490g
ISBN: 9781032112466
ISBN 10: 1032112468
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 29 January 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Niklas Forsberg is Head of Research at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. He is the author of Language Lost and Found: On Iris Murdoch and the Limits of Philosophical Discourse (2012).

Reviews for Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary: Language and Morality in J.L. Austin’s Philosophy

"""This book provides the first comprehensive study of Austin’s philosophy as a whole. It is remarkably useful and welcome, at a crucial moment of re-evaluation of ordinary language philosophy as an actual alternative to mainstream analytic philosophy."" Sandra Laugier, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France"