Inhabiting Human Languages

Not only words such as ‘roof but also names like ‘Cecily’ shape the way you inhabit your languages, says this monograph dressed up as a sermon that urges philosophers to adopt Esperanto as a means for conceptual clarification. Certain ideas from translation studies, from generative linguistics and from poststructuralist literary theory are thrown in, with standard philosophical ingredients, to arrive at a conceptual cuisine for our time and context. Even readers not keyed into the specialized material involved may enjoy the novel like narrative focused on the life of Cecily Biswas.