{"product_id":"binding-words-karen-s-feldman-9780810122819","title":"Binding Words: Conscience and Rhetoric in Hobbes, Hegel, and Heidegger","description":"In a provactive work that brings new tools to the history of philosophy, Karen S. Feldman offers an elegant account of how philosophical language appears to produce the very thing it claims to describe. She demonstrates that conscience can only be described and understood through tropes and figures of langugae. If description in literal terms is impossible, as \u003ci\u003eBinding Words\u003c\/i\u003e convincingly argues, perhaps there is no such thing. But if the word \"conscience\" has no tangible referent, then how can conscience be constructed as \u003ci\u003ebinding\u003c\/i\u003e? Does our conscience move us to do things, or is this yet another figure of speech? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHobbes's \u003ci\u003eLeviathan\u003c\/i\u003e, Hegel's \u003ci\u003ePhenomenology of Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e, and Heidegger's \u003ci\u003eBeing and Time \u003c\/i\u003edramatize conscience's relation to language and knowledge, morality and duty, and ontology. Feldman investigates how, within these works, conscience is described as binding upon us while at the same time asking how texts themselves may be read as binding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karen S. Feldman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810122812\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810122819\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.04w x 0.53d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2006 pg. 15","brand":"Karen S. Feldman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926327623935,"sku":"9780810122819","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_cd4d0f04-02bf-496d-84ea-ecb291f6c566.jpg?v=1681082456","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/binding-words-karen-s-feldman-9780810122819","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}