Summary
In Quotations as Pictures, Josef Stern develops a semantics for quotations using explanatory notions drawn from philosophical theories of pictures. He offers the first sustained analysis of the practice of quotation proper, as opposed to mentioning. Unlike other accounts that treat quotation as mentioning, Quotations as Pictures argues that the two practices have independent histories, that they behave differently semantically, that the inverted commas employed in both menti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262543132 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262543133 |
| Author: | Josef Stern |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 8 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Josef Stern
Josef Stern is William H. Colvin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Chicago and was the Inaugural Director of the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies. He is the author of Metaphor in Context (MIT Press), The Matter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide, and other books.
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