Table of Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Contextualizing Meaning
1.1 The Indeterminacy of Meaning: “Unnatural Doubts” and “Theoretical Diagnosis”
1.2 Wittgenstein as a Theoretical Diagnostician: Overcoming the Temptations of Reification and Decontextualization
1.3 Contextual Determinacy: Wittgenstein and Dewey on Meaning and Agreement
1.4 Meaning in Context: Semantic Stability and Semantic Change
1.5 Sustaining Agreement in Action: Normalcy and Eccentricity
1.6 A View from Elsewhere
2. Contextualizing Identity
2.1 The Hegelian Connection: Identity, Difference, and Polyphony
2.1.a The Dialectics of Recognition
2.1.b To Be and Not to Be: This Mess Called My Identity
2.2 The Flourishing of Voices and Their Domestication
3. Contextualizing Agency
3.1 Fighting Philosophical Myths about Discursive Agency
3.2 On Having a Voice: Uncontrollability, Polyphony, and a Hybrid View of Agency and Responsibility
3.3 The Scandal of Our Agency: Agency without Sovereignty and the Possibility of Transgression
4.
Speaking from Elsewhere: Silence, Exclusion, and Marginality
4.1 Contextualism and the Hermeneutics of Silence
4.2 Making Sense of Radical Silences and Exclusions: A Polyphonic Perspective
4.3 Spaces of Intelligibility and Marginality
4.4 Speaking from the Margins
Notes
References
Index
About the author
José Medina is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and the author ofThe Unity of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy: Necessity, Intelligibility, and Normativity, also published by SUNY Press, and
Language: Key Concepts in Philosophy, and the coeditor (with David Wood) of
Truth: Engagements Across Philosophical Traditions.
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