Language games
About the book:
A book about language games can itself be a game with language: In “Games of Language”, Frankfurt philosopher Martin Seel makes an impressive plea for understanding the role of language within the human world from the equal diversity of its uses. Following this maxim, he uses various ways of playing the game of language on his journey through the landscape of the philosophy of language: Argumentation, narration, improvisation. In doing so, he allows various thinkers and philosophical traditions to enter into dialog with one another – from Herder to Humboldt to Wittgenstein, from romantic to analytical, pragmatist and phenomenological to deconstructive views – and thus corrects their mutual blindness.
A virtuously composed attempt at the “games of language”, which visualizes what moves linguistic life and how all those who lead it are moved by it.
