The Material Word

Contents:
-I- Introduction: the language of mastery
1. Interrupting the 'I'
2. Language and ideology in Althuser
-II- The limits of language
3. Wittgenstein's two languages
4. Kafka: the poet of black and white
-III- Language and thought
5. Husserl's two phenomenolgies
6. Heidegger: from letters to being, or from being to letters?
-IV- Language and society
7. The essentialism of ethnomethodology
8. Codes in conversation: the speech of Bernstein and Labdov
-V- The practice of ordinary language
9. What Austin does with words
10. Locke's text of property
-VI- Language, sign and text
11. The significance of Barthes
12. The blood of dreams: Robbe-Grillet project
-VII- Conclusion: the mastery of language
13. Textuality, sexuality, economy
14. The competence model and its limits