Bøker av David Beaver

"In much of the theory of meaning, philosophers and linguists have focused on the use of language in conveying information in cooperative informational exchanges. As a result, political uses of speech, of the sort that political propaganda exemplifies, have not been taken to be a central case of language use. In this book, Jason Stanley and David Beaver focus on the political use of speech as a central case, which leads to a foundational rethinking of the theory of meaning. By focusing on the political uses of speech, one arrives at better (and more general) tools to describe speech, as well as a more accurate view of its central functions. More dramatically, it enables us to see the ways in which virtually all speech is political-a fact that is masked by much of the theory of meaning. Stanley and Beaver's topic is speech generally-its function and how best to represent that function. Political propaganda serves as a window into that topic, since its function is not obviously to share information, or even misinformation. They emphasize the importance of understanding how political propaganda works via the topic of the justification of free speech and argue that political propaganda poses a problem for a broad range of justifications of free speech. Stanley and Beaver argue that it is not possible to compartmentalize the political aspects of speech from the non-political aspects of speech, nor is it possible to carve out a neutral deliberative space of evaluating reasons qua reasons. Speech is invariably political"--

It is the age of blood. The human tribes scatter and are ever at each other's throats. The elves seclude themselves blissfully in the east, and the dwarves hide in the mountains where they drink their days away and ignore the world outside. The harsh life of the barbarian tribes will only soon get worse, however. As they war against one another they will be easy to conquer. The Demon King knows this and sets his eyes on them. Having recently conquered the orcs of Gorka he will use the hordes to capture Diamic and turn it into the tenth plane of Hell. Only one man can unite the people of Diamic and force back the threat of the Demon King and his orc armies...but not merely by brute strength but through wit, intellect, and by quenching the flames of hate with the power of love, not known to most barbarians. Only this is certain: it will be a war of ages, it will be an Epic War. It will end the Age of Blood but will it be an Age of Truth, or an Age of Damnation they will see?