Mutual Misunderstanding: Scepticism and the Theorizing of Language and Interpretation

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Overview

Mutual Misunderstanding presents a strikingly original analysis of the rhetorical patters underlying Western linguistic thought, as exemplified in the works of John Locke, Jacques Derrida, Gottlob Frege, Jonathan Culler, Noam Chomsky, Ferdinand de Saussure, H. Paul Crice, Michael Dummet, Stanley Fish, Alfred Schutz, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Harold Garfinkel, and others.

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ISBN-13: 9780822312499
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 8/28/1992
Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions Series
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 266
Product dimensions: 5.87 (w) x 9.15 (h) x 0.79 (d)

	Preface
	To Remedy the Abuse of Words
1	On Addressing Understanding	3
2	On How We Ought to Understand	27
	Communicational Codes
3	On Now We Naturally Understand	49
4	On What Understanding Must Be	71
5	On Knowing What We Understand	95
	Communicational Reasoning
6	On Reaching an Understanding	117
7	On Understanding What to Do	139
	Communicational Practice
8	On Believing We Understand	157
9	On Acting like We Understand	186
10	On Doing "Understanding"	201
	Denouement
11	On Whether (We Believe) We Understand Each Other	233
	References	259
	Index	263

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