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Secara etimologis, kata ‘hermeneutik’ atau ‘hermeneutika’ berasal dari bahasa Inggris hermeneutics. Kata hermeneutics sendiri berasal dari bahasa Yunani hermeneuo yang berarti ‘mengungkapkan pikiran-pikiran seseorang dalam kata-kata’ atau hermeneuein yang berarti ‘menafsirkan’ dan hermeneia yang berarti ‘penafsiran’. Kata hermeneuo juga bermakna ‘menerjemahkan’ atau ‘b…
Considered one of the most important works of one of France's foremost philosophers, and long-awaited in English, The Logic of Sense begins with an extended exegesis of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Considering stoicism, language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia, and literature, Deleuze determines the status of meaning and meaninglessness, and seeks the 'place' where sense and nonsense c…
Why study signs? This perennial question of philosophy is answered by the science of semiotics. An animal's cry, poetry, the medical symptom, media messages, language disorders, architecture, marketing, body language - all these, and more, fall within the sphere of semiotics. This book outlines the development of sign study from its classical precursors to contemporary post-structuralism. It id…
Can quite different values be rationally weighed against one another? Can the value of one thing always be ranked as greater than, equal to, or less than the value of something else? If the answer to these questions is no, then in what areas do we find commensurability and comparability unavailable? And what are the implications for moral and legal decision making? In this book, some of the sha…
An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge guides the reader through the key issues and debates in contemporary epistemology. Lucid, comprehensive and accessible, it is an ideal textbook for students who are new to the subject and for university undergraduates. The book is divided into five parts. Part I discusses the concept of knowledge and distinguishes between different types of knowledg…