...Marianne Constable The use of the saying “Actions speak louder than words” renders problematic both political and legal judgments. With its often excruciating attention to language, law in particular insists on maintaining relations between speech and reality or between words and the truths...

...Ann Smock Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 Geranium Logic Intensity and Indiff erence in Emmanuel Hocquard ann smock Emmanuel Hocquard recalls having had a lot of trouble learning to read and write. He was a slow pupil, he says— an unusually clumsy struggler with classroom...

... to grapple. Though that’s not really true. You’ve long grappled, it’s just that your grappling has come to a head, as they say; your grappling can no longer be grappled alone. If it ever could. You’ve grappled so much you’ve begun to tear at the seams you thought—because so many people made it appear...

... piece in the game. It is not clear why Heraclitus, the great thinker of the shifting of opposites (day and night, the living and the dead, the young and the old), used the image of a boy moving pieces in a game to character- ize time. Heidegger says...

... with that mind. Copyright © 2018 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2018 talk Marcel Proust sociolinguistics Where do the things we say come from, and who actually says them? In his endlessly fascinating 1979 essay, “Footing,” Erving Goffman suggested that we might do well to break down the commonplace...

... by speech and not just in speech? Is there, in other words, a "voice" of language that says things, whether or not we speakers say them? In her book Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony (2000), Denise Riley examines the manifold, unaccountable ways in which things get said and get...

...,” Le Débat 143 (January–February 2007): 86–104. marcel gauchet: You’ve reached a turning point in your ca- reer: you’ve thrown yourself into a new cycle of studies, the fi rst volume of which has just been released: If Speaking Goes without Saying: On Logos or Other Last Resorts [Si parler va...

... pedagogical level, I fi nd it easier to understand abstractions— for instance, in a political debate or in philosophical arguments— when I know the fundamental and specifi c concern that propelled the broader argument. That is to say, there’s a pedagogical gain to be had in understanding...

..., and novelist George Santayana. Casting the mantle of aesthetics to Santayana and the Santayanans he obliquely remarked, "He doesn't say it's Qui Parie,Vol. 15, No. 1 Fall/Winter 2004 116 TODD CRONAN good, he doesn't say it's bad; he just stands there drunk in the bath- water...

... anthropological perspective is one puzzled in principle by anything human beings say and do, hence perhaps, at a moment, by nothing.” 28 To recognize the ordinary nature of language is to discover the Ordinary in the Everyday and in the repetition of days and nights. Exploration of the Everyday is possible...

... didn’t. And that’s right about Austin. Moreover, in the end, Hippolytus doesn’t break his promise anyway. This latter detail leads some of Austin’s critics, including Cavell, to say that Austin seems to have misremembered the play. But that seems implausible. Before Austin went to Oxford, he translated...

..., that which will just correspond to given functions or the execution of a program, which a function carries out. The problem for me at that time was, Can one think of cybernetics in relation to something that is instead a function that we do not know yet, in order to open up the function? Rather than saying...

... will. It is for this reason that Kant says republican- ism is actually incompatible with democracy. For in a democratic state the people—through their representatives—serve as both the executive and the legislative powers. As counterintuitive as it is seems to twenty-fi rst-century modern...

... that the environmental mode of explanation is only one side of the planetary analysis I want to produce in this essay. What I call the planetary is composed of two diff erent dimensions: fi rst, the environmental situation, that is to say, what concerns the in- terconnectedness of every...

... artistic works of the past thirty or more years—the major artistic works since, let’s say, the economic recession of 1973. (As an aside, I will note that in what follows, implicitly and at one point explic- itly, a suggestion is made that events that occurred on September 11...

...- menting on my inability to stand completely upright when out of my wheelchair—my inability to stand straight like a normal hu- man being. I understood that saying I was like an animal separated me from other people. Whether I considered if the statement meant that I was less...

... or the musician faces the predicament of being listened to not as an agent of what s/he does as a practitioner of music but as a member of a society who listens — or doesn't. Listening certainly does not involve some natural talent. One might not say this about composing or playing an instrument...

..., and that, lastly and most importantly, if philosophy can be accidentally French, this is because it is historically and intrinsi- cally European. What makes Europe—that is philosophy. In saying this I do not mean to imply that what makes philosophy could be Europe. The question concerns the European...

... one also gets when looking at a recent piece titled Shame (2013), by digital artist Miron Tee: George Washington “seems to be ashamed to appear in the bill,” says the short comment on the Spanish online platform where this work is exhibited ( fig. 3 ). 2 Fig. 2. Hans-Peter Feldmann, Miss...

... is to say: the kind of drives and slips of mimesis that, as good ideas and good lies, stitch the days together, as in Graham’s poem. Which, we recall, begins: “This is the story / of a beautiful / lie, what slips / through my fingers, / your fingers . . . ” By intensifying the harmonics between lie...