[lit-ideas] Re: Speaking (La Parole)
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 19:51:46 -0700
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.
Robert Paul,
having a bad day
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