JL, in elucidating Gusdorf's book on how language works cites an Amazon customer's review of it.
"Translated out of French, Gusdorf's philosophy is deceptively simplistic and very easy to read", one reviewer goes. "He focuses on the importance of language to our lives and, ultimately, the way that it shapes our very world, including our ethics." "I read this book during an ethics course and I have to warn that it is much deeper than it appears on the surface." "If you can wade through the paradigm shifts, however, it may change your life - Gusdorf has such a thorough grasp of how things work that my point of
> view has been irrevocably changed."Perhaps such reviews are of interest to other Amazon customers but this one is hardly a reliable guide to or summary of the work being considered.
I'd hope that someone would point out to him what 'simplistic' means. Before it's too late.
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