Language and Politics: Why Does Language Matter to Political Philosophy?

We are presently confronted with a Babel of theories about language. As these proliferate, our need for an overview becomes acute. Linking linguistic and political man in Language And Politics, Dallmayr provides a perspective from which to assess the contemporary confusion of approaches. Among Anglo-American trends Dallmayr discusses logical empiricism, linguistic behaviorism, generative grammar, ordinary-language analysis, and speech-act theory; in the Continental setting he covers transcendental phenomenology, transcendental hermeneutics, universal pragmatics, and language ontology.