Moorehead Caroline : Bertrand Russell
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Moorehead Caroline : Bertrand Russell by Caroline Moorehead
Divine discourse comprises Nicholas Wolterstorff's philosophical reflections on the claim that God speaks. This claim figures large in the canonical texts and traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, but there has been remarkably little philosophical reflection on it, in good measure (so Professor Wolterstorff argues) because philosophers have mistakenly assimilated divine speech to divine revelation. He embraces contemporary speech-action theory as his basic approach to language; and after expanding the theory beyond its usual applications, concludes that the claim that God performs illocutionary actions is coherent and entails no obvious falsehoods. Moving on to issues of interpretation, he considers how one would interpret a text if one wanted to find out what God was saying thereby. Prominent features of this part of the discussion are his defense, against Ricoeur and Derrida, of the legitimacy of interpreting a text to find out what its author said, and his analysis of the double hermeneutic involved when the discourse of one person is appropriated into the discourse of another person. The book closes with a discussion of the epistemological question of whether we are entitled to believe that God speaks.Caroline Moorehead is Bertrand Russell's, Freya Stark's, Iris Origo's, and Martha Gellhorn's biographer. She is well-known for her work in human rights, having written a history of the Red Cross as well as Human Cargo, an acclaimed book about refugees. Dancing to the Precipice, a biography of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, was her previous work. She splits her time between London and Italy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780670850082 |
| ISBN 10 | 067085008X |
| Title | Moorehead Caroline : Bertrand Russell |
| Author | Caroline Moorehead |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1993-10-28 |
| Number of pages | 608 |
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