Author: Avner Baz File Type: pdf A new form of philosophizing known as ordinary language philosophy took root in England after the Second World War, promising a fresh start and a way out of long-standing dead-end philosophical debates. Pioneered by Wittgenstein, Austin, and others, OLP is now widely rumored, within mainstream analytic philosophy, to have been seriously discredited, and consequently its perspective is ignored. Avner Baz begs to differ. In When Words Are Called For, he shows how the prevailing arguments against OLP collapse under close scrutiny. All of them, he claims, presuppose one version or another of the very conception of word-meaning that OLP calls into question and takes to be responsible for many traditional philosophical difficulties. Worse, analytic philosophy itself has suffered as a result of its failure to take OLPs perspective seriously. Baz blames a neglect of OLPs insights for seemingly irresolvable disputes over the methodological relevance of intuitions in philosophy and for misunderstandings between contextualists and anti-contextualists (or invariantists) in epistemology. Baz goes on to explore the deep affinities between Kants work and OLP and suggests ways that OLP could be applied to other philosophically troublesome concepts. When Words Are Called For defends OLP not as a doctrine but as a form of practice that might provide a viable alternative to work currently carried out within mainstream analytic philosophy. Accordingly, Baz does not merely argue for OLP but, all the more convincingly, practices it in this eye-opening book. **Review Austin, Wittgenstein and the so-called ordinary language tradition in philosophy are at risk of being lost. Not because they have fallen prey to clinching philosophical arguments, but because for over twenty-five years they have suffered from caricature, dogmatism, neglect, and all-too-facile dismissal by those who would pronounce their teachings dead for contemporary philosophy. Baz has written a courageous, lucid, trenchant, and provocative book, reopening the issue and developing a new outlook on the traditions value and prospects. It is filled with questions about history, argumentation, and philosophical method that need answering. If I had to recommend one text showing how fundamental questions of philosophical method still lie at the heart of the analytic tradition, it would be this one. (Juliet Floyd, Boston University) The effort of this book in defense of ordinary language philosophy will have a more positive effect on the field of philosophy than any other theoretical defense of the practice that I am aware of. This book has a chance to bring distinct new interest to some of the most interesting (and I hope permanently inspiring) moments of advance in philosophy over the course of the past six or seven decades. (Stanley Cavell, Harvard University) This is a revolutionary bookcertainly within the context of mainstream analytic philosophy. But its appeal should be wider than the admittedly narrow circle of professional philosophers. Indeed, it addresses a popular dissatisfaction with philosophy namely, that philosophical arguments are often seen as beside the point, detached from life and unsatisfying Baz believes that philosophers tend to divorce their words from reality. His view is that we make sense only when we speak in virtue of such a connection Baz is trying to build a persuasive case for a perspective in which philosophical difficulties lose their apparent force. He has given us a radical, subtle and patient account of an alternative to how much of philosophy proceeds today. (Craig Fox Times Higher Education 2012-07-12) A serious challenge to the prevailing but misguided assumption that linguistic and conceptual explorations cant tell us anything about the nature of things...It is exciting to see ordinary language philosophy being taken seriously again in these dark philosophical times. (Constantine Sandis Times Higher Education 2013-02-07) About the Author Avner Baz is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. He has written about ethics, aesthetics, perception, judgment, and about the question of philosophical method in the works of Kant, Wittgenstein, Cavell, and John McDowell

Author: Alain Bertho File Type: epub Exploring the fury of the young in a world or crisis that seems to offer no alternativesOnly martyrs know neither pity nor fear. Believe me, the day when the martyrs are victorious will be the day of universal conflagration. Jacques Lacan made this gloomy prophesy back in 1959 but doesnt it also apply to our own time? Faced with a rise in attacks around the world, can we really just blame the radicalization of Islam? What hope is there for the alienated youth, as the wars that have ravaged the Middle East spill out across the globe?For Alain Bertho, the mounting chaos we see today is above all driven by the weakening of states legitimacy under the pressure of globalization. Add to this the hypocrisy of the elites who beat the drum of security measures, even as they sow the seeds of violence around the world. This disorder is the swamp of despair which can only produce fresh atrocities.Todays youth are the lost children of neoliberal globalization, the inheritors of the political and human chaos it produces. When they find it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, their revolt tends to take the paths of martyrdom and despair. The closing of the revolutionary hypothesis allows only fury. The answer, Bertho argues, is a new radicalism, able to inspire a collective hope in the future.

Author: Steven Emerson File Type: pdf AFTER SEPTEMBER 11, 2001......the federal government detained several hundred people suspected of terrorist involvement, and continued to search for hundreds more. Some were overseas, some were on the run, but most were already at home -- in America. Who are these people? Where did they come from? And how could there be so many terrorists or suspected terrorists living among us without action being taken? In American Jihad, Steven Emerson, the worlds leading authority on domestic Islamic terrorist networks, tells the full story of the rise of those who wish to destroy the United States from within. From the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, to foiled attacks on the New York City subway system, to a stunning range of murders across the country, there were numerous warning signs that the American Jihad had been gaining momentum. With an up-to-the-minute afterword that explains the stops and starts of the post-911 investigation, American Jihad reveals the full story that only Emerson knows -- and the reasons America failed to stop the most devastating attack in history on our own soil. This is a frightening and crucial book for anyone who needs to understand the threat within our borders.Amazon.com ReviewSome have said that the events of September 11 took every American by surprise. Thats not true. There were Cassandras among us warning about the dangers of Islamic terrorism--and one of their leaders was Steven Emerson, who must be ranked among the most fearless reporters in the world. As a self-made expert on Islamic terrorism, he has invited the hatred of violent murderers. (At least one group has marked him for assassination he was offered enrollment in the federal witness protection program, but refused). For more than 10 years, Emerson has soldiered on, studying groups that operate in the United States for the express purpose of funding and managing deadly organizations. American Jihad summarizes what he has learned, and it isnt comforting. Emerson shows how the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has grown an extensive network in the United States, how the group Islamic Jihad set up shop at the University of South Florida, and how an Islamic center in Tucson helped recruit two of Osama bin Ladens top deputies. He also provides circumstantial evidence that bin Laden himself once applied for an American visa--even the possibility is tantalizing, and chilling, he concludes. He urges Americans to fight back, but worries that time is short We are still vulnerable. This is an important book, and a sobering one. --John MillerReviewMelissa Radler The Jerusalem Post It is hard to think of anyone who has done more extensive research in the area. The things that worry Emerson should worry America at large. -- ReviewEthan BronnerThe New York Times Book ReviewEmerson is an investigator who has performed a genuine service...His information should be taken seriously.Jeff JacobyThe Boston GlobeThe indispensable guide to American Muslim extremists and their ties to international terrorism.Richmond Times-DispatchThe book is thorough and audacious -- and sobering. American Jihad belongs on the required reading list.Oliver RevellFormer FBI Assistant Director in Charge of CounterterrorismIt may be that Mr. Emerson is actually better informed in some areas than the responsible agencies of government.Melissa RadlerThe Jerusalem PostIt is hard to think of anyone who has done more extensive research in the area. The things that worry Emerson should worry America at large. Amazon.com ReviewSome have said that the events of September 11 took every American by surprise. Thats not true. There were Cassandras among us warning about the dangers of Islamic terrorism--and one of their leaders was Steven Emerson, who must be ranked among the most fearless reporters in the world. As a self-made expert on Islamic terrorism, he has invited the hatred of violent murderers. (At least one group has marked him for assassination he was offered enrollment in the federal witness protection program, but refused). For more than 10 years, Emerson has soldiered on, studying groups that operate in the United States for the express purpose of funding and managing deadly organizations. American Jihad summarizes what he has learned, and it isnt comforting. Emerson shows how the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has grown an extensive network in the United States, how the group Islamic Jihad set up shop at the University of South Florida, and how an Islamic center in Tucson helped recruit two of Osama bin Ladens top deputies. He also provides circumstantial evidence that bin Laden himself once applied for an American visa--even the possibility is tantalizing, and chilling, he concludes. He urges Americans to fight back, but worries that time is short We are still vulnerable. This is an important book, and a sobering one. --John MillerReviewEthan BronnerThe New York Times Book ReviewEmerson is an investigator who has performed a genuine service...His information should be taken seriously.Jeff JacobyThe Boston GlobeThe indispensable guide to American Muslim extremists and their ties to international terrorism.Richmond Times-DispatchThe book is thorough and audacious -- and sobering. American Jihad belongs on the required reading list.Oliver RevellFormer FBI Assistant Director in Charge of CounterterrorismIt may be that Mr. Emerson is actually better informed in some areas than the responsible agencies of government.Melissa RadlerThe Jerusalem PostIt is hard to think of anyone who has done more extensive research in the area. The things that worry Emerson should worry America at large.

Author: Pablo Neruda File Type: epub Sensual, earthy love poems that formed the basis for the popular movie Il Postino, now in a beautiful gift book perfect for weddings, Valentines Day, anniversaries, or just to say I love you! Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Nerudas love poems are the most celebrated of the Nobel Prize winners oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images and reveling in a fiery re-imagining of the world. Mostly written on the island paradise of Capri (the idyllic setting of the Oscar-winning movie Il Postino), Love Poems embraces the seascapes surrounding the poet and his love Matilde Urrutia, their waves and shores saturated with a new, yearning eroticism. And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world. 1973 by Neruda & Walsh