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The Meaning of Meaninglessness

The Meaning of Meaninglessness

Blocker, G.

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 9024715954
ISBN13: 9789024715954
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Nov 30 1974
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
What does meaningless mean? On the one hand, it signifies simply the absence or lack of meaning. Zabool is meaningless just because it doesn't happen to mean anything. Green flees time- lessly is meaningless, despite a certain semblance of sense, because it runs afoul of certain fundamental rules of linguistic construction. On the other hand, meaningless characterizes that peculiar psycho- logical state of dread and anxiety much discussed, if not discovered, by the French shortly after the Second World War. The first is primarily linguistic, focusing attention on emotionally neutral questions of linguistic meaning. The second is nonlinguistic, indicating a painful probing of the social psychology of an era, a clinical and literary analysis of 20th century Romanticism. On the one hand, a job for the professional philosopher; on the other hand, a task for the literary critic and the social historian. Is any useful purpose served in trying to combine these two, very different concerns? As the title of this book suggests, I think there is.

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